Since the conviction of Nicolas Sarkozy, the magistrates, including Nathalie Gavarino, have been threatened with death. Two separate surveys are open. Facts that make the French.
According to a “live opinion” survey, piloted by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV and published on Wednesday, October 1, 72% of the French say they are “shocked” by attacks against the president of the Paris Criminal Court. Among them, they are 39% to say “very shocked.”
It is to the left of the political spectrum that the interviewees are the most outraged. 85% of them are. A figure that falls 65% between LR supporters and 52% among those of the national rally.
The former head of state was sentenced to five years in prison with a court order with a delayed effect with provisional execution. He is summoned on October 13 by the Office of the National Financial Prosecutor to know the terms of his imprisonment. Among the points that arouse the tension of Nicolas Sarkozy, the order of deferred effect with the provisional execution, which sends it directly to the prison, despite his call.
For the old tenant of Elysée, “nothing justified to pronounce” this provisional execution. “It is very incredible. Even in its violent requests, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office had not requested it[…]There is the desire to humiliate, “Nicolas Sarkozy deplores this Saturday at the Sunday Journal. Arguments that are not enough to outrak the French against this measure: 61% of them” consider that this rule is fair. “
A figure that increases to 85% among voters on the left, but which falls to 29% among LR and 38% among those of the national rally.
A decision considered “impartial” by most French
To justify his decision to send Nicolas Sarkozy to prison, the president of the Nathalie Gavarino court considered that the alleged facts were “exceptional gravity”, “probably alter the confidence of citizens.”
In BFMTV and RMC on Tuesday, the Attorney General of the Republic of Paris deplored the proliferation of “hate reactions” against the magistrates. “Threats to cut, Guillotner and the dissemination of infamous sexual images,” lists Laure Beccuau. For his part, the head of the national financial prosecution Jean-François Bohner said in RTL that he had no “hate” against the former president of the Republic, ensuring that “he does not have an account to resolve.”
58% of the French questioned believe that the judges made an impartially impartial decision when applying the law, against 41% that the judges made a decision in a politicized manner.
Sample of 1,002 people, representative of residents of continental France of 18 years or more. The representativeness of the sample was ensured according to the quota method applied to the following variables: sex, age and profession of the interviewee after stratification by region and category of agglomeration. Internet interrogation from September 29 to 30, 2025.
Source: BFM TV
