Screams of surprise in the Court for the announcement of the sentence, his wife and his three children who face him, his ex -wife Cécilia Attias, who divided a message of support. If the Nicolas Sarkozy clan is blocking the former president sentenced to 5 years in prison for “Association of Criminals”, his political family, shows his prudence or even his free discomfort.
However, this is the first time that a former head of the State will have been sleeping at least for some time after bars, after more than a decade of legal procedures within the framework of the Khadafi issue. To justify this decision, the president of the Nathalie Gavarino Court emphasized that the alleged facts They were “exceptional gravity”“Probably alter citizens’ trust.”
“We have to digest”
Among the few who are drawn quickly, we observe Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the deputies of LR, and Éric Ciotti, out of the prohibition with the right. Often capable of drawing in a few minutes a heavy reaction in Trébuchet, the president of the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, a distant successor of Nicolas Sarkozy, on the contrary of the minimum service almost three hours after the trial.
The Interior Minister, who is responsible for expressing himself in the name of his party and not with his post Place Beauvau, is satisfied with five lines in a press release. He judges that the former president “brought a lot to France” and that “he has always been a faithful servant of his country.”
Another tenor on the right, the president of the Gérard Larcher Senate, talks to him in the past of Nicolas Sarkozy. “He was a statesman, let’s not forget,” we can read on his X account.
“When I read everything, I told myself that I had the impression that I had just died. We are all a bit attentive. We have to digest,” acknowledges an elected official.
“Complicated to take justice from the avant -garde”
As for former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, in Rachida Dati, appointed Minister of Justice under the five -year period of former Mayor of Neuilly, or the Seals Gérald Darmanin guardian, appreciated by Nicolas Sarkozy, Radio Silence. Flat Calm, equal to the side of LR deputies, not quickly to divide a support message publicly.
Despite the questions about the immediate execution of sentences that will lead to the imprisonment of Nicolas Sarkozy despite his call, the atmosphere in the ranks on the right, therefore, is far from his previous convictions.
Example in 2021 in the Bygmalion file. The right had not argued without failing the former Ubocate of the Elysée (which appeared in cassation in this case in October, note of the editor), already sentenced to a year in prison for “illegal financing” of his electoral campaign.
But the time obviously changed. The right had already reacted with minimalism last December after his final sentence to a year in prison for the listening issue, which led to the port for a few months of an electronic bracelet.
“It is difficult to face justice, more when the law again has presidential ambitions. We could not do more than reactions in the tone of friendship,” Raymond Soubie, former advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy in the Elysée, acknowledges.
The “Order” party, France of “honest people”
This is that all this matter deeply ashamed to the LR. After years of shortage, the right party has finally returned to the controllers thanks to the fiasco of the solution. Since then, the corridors of the ministries have been frequent and has taken colors in the surveys thanks to the elections in his head of Bruno Retilleau.
The new strong man on the right, who made “order” his leitmotif, even found a new slogan for his group: “France of honest people.” Suffice it to say that its former president’s conviction is at least disorderly in a right that seeks to rebuild and become a credible alternative for the next presidential elections.
“I have humanly problems” for Nicolas Sarkozy, explains Florence Portelli, vice president of the LR, while “discover normal that one can condemn a former president.”
“We cannot say that you need more severity and at the same time say that it is shocking when it suddenly refers to politicians,” observes so close to Valérie Puebresse.
“Turn the page”
The conviction of the former head of state is ashamed even more since the correct oscillating in recent years between admiration and the desire to change the page. Nicolas Sarkozy can continue to dismiss his advice to Gabriel Attal and Sébastien Lecornu while continuing to receive elected right -wing officials in his office on Rue de Miromesnil, he also has the art of shameful.
In recent years, the septuagenarian has never hesitated to go against his camp by supporting Emmanuel Macron, for example, during the 2022 campaign against his own candidate of his Valérie Pécresse camp. While the law was struggling to survive the legislative elections organized in the process, the former president even requested “an agreement” with the macronista camp. More recently, Nicolas Sarkozy did not hesitate to shoot Bruno Retilleau asking not to support François Bayrou during the confidence of trust, exactly the opposite of the will of the Interior Minister.
“It has been a while since he does not always play with us and I think we are a number to find that even if this Court decision damages the image of France, we have to stop the costs. At one time, we have to change the page,” he urges a deputy of LR.
While he expects the page to turn completely, the former tenant of the Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Honoré still has a justice appointment. Its entrance to the prison will be established on October 13.
Source: BFM TV
