Shock wave in the French political landscape. Thursday, September 25, former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to Five years in prison for the “criminal association”, As part of the suspicion of Libyan funds in your campaign.
His conviction is accompanied by a deferred order with the provisional execution, which means that the former president will be imprisoned in the coming weeks – A first for a former head of state.
Only a few hours after the announcement of the verdict, international media did not have to react, evoking for some “historical moment” or simply a “shock for the Republic.”
“Malfactor”, “Veneno”
Nicolas Sarkozy’s face appears on the main page of all the great newspapers. In Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describes the former president as “a poison for democracy.” He “undermined the Republican principles attacking the judges” (…). Now the bling-bling is over. “
The condemnation of Nicolas Sarkozy constitutes for the others “a defeat against justice”, underlines the German conservative newspaper Die Welt, despite the “influential voice” of the former tenant of the elysée “with many supporters of the right.”
On the other side of the Atlantic, the American press is not more tender. The New York Times evokes the “most severe blow to the legacy of Nicolas Sarkozy.” Finally, he stops in the judge’s words during yesterday’s trial: an “extremely serious act”, that “SOCAVE probably the trust of citizens towards those who represent them.”
In spite of everything, by fixing a prison sentence in late execution, Justice “saved” Nicolas Sarkozy “the humiliation of being a practical and directed by the police outside the room of the crowded room,” analyzes the Washington Post. Now convicted, the former head of the State will be convened on October 13 by the office of the National Financial Prosecutor to discover the terms of his imprisonment.
In the columns of the newspapers, the same adjective returns: “Criminal”, insists on the Swiss media blick: “It is the word that hurts.” The condemnation of Nicolas Sarkozy consists of a “serious accusation for a political official who still plays the role of godfather of his camp, namely the traditional right.”
In the reaction of Nicolas Sarkozy after the announcement of his sentence, an appointment calls the attention of the British daily newspapers: “I will sleep in prison, but my high head. I am innocent,” he quotes the guardian to evoke a “surprise conviction” and “more severe than many thought.”
A “first time”
In fact, it is the “first time since World War II that a former president is guilty of criminal conspiracy with a foreign government,” says Telegraph.
The unprecedented character of the situation is what foreign journalists memorize, such as the world, who emphasizes that Nicolas Sarkozy will be the first “president of the fifth Republic” in “finishing behind bars.”
The Spanish newspaper does not remember that the former president has already been sentenced in the past A year in prison Equipped farm under electronic bracelet in the case of listening. Nicolas Sarkozy was also withdrawn from the Legion of Honor due to his conviction, a “dishonor” that shares with the “collaborationist Philippe Pétain”, makes fun of El Mundo.
Of all the reactions, a gesture marked the day, that of Carla Bruni at the end of the court. Surrounded by journalists, the former president’s wife destroyed the map of the Mediapart microphone, which had revealed the case of the Libyan funds in 2011, dedicating no less than 160 articles over the years, becoming the cover of the Italian newspaper Corriere Della della will be the title of “its IRA gesture.”
Source: BFM TV
