Bygmalion: Sarkozy fixé sur dépenses excessives campagne 2012

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L'ancien président Nicolas Sarkozy sera fixé mercredi après-midi sur son sort dans le procès en appel "Bygmalion" sur les dépenses excessives de sa campagne présidentielle perdue de 2012, une affaire pour laquelle il a été condamné en première instance à un an de prison ferme. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Former President Nicolas Sarkozy will be sentenced on Wednesday afternoon on his fate in the trial

00:04 in appeal to Big Malone on the excessive expenses of his presidential campaign lost in 2012,

00:09 a case for which he was first sentenced to a year in prison.

00:13 The Paris Court of Appeal must make its decision from 1 3.30.

00:18 In September 2021, the Paris Court of Appeal had recognized the former head of state, 2007

00:24 to 2012, guilty of having largely exceeded the legal ceiling of expenses and had sentenced him

00:29 to a year in prison for illegal campaign funding.

00:32 However, the court had requested that this sentence be directly arranged at home

00:37 under electronic surveillance.

00:40 Thirteen other people had also been sentenced to sentences ranging from three and a half years

00:43 in prison, some of which had exceeded.

00:45 Nicolas Sarkozy and nine other people appealed and were re-tried from November 8 to December 7

00:51 last.

00:52 In this case, investigations have revealed that to hide the explosion of expenses

00:57 of his campaign, nearly 43 million euros for a maximum allowed of 22.5 million, a system

01:02 of double billing had been set up imputing the UMP, covered by fictitious conventions,

01:07 a large part of the cost of the rallies.

01:09 Unlike his co-informed, the former head of state is not charged for this system of

01:14 false invoices.

01:15 But, in his judgment, the correctional court had stressed that the former tenant of the

01:20 Elysee had pursued the organization of electoral rallies, requesting a rally per day,

01:25 even though he had been warned by writing of the risk of legal overstep, then

01:29 of effective overstep.

01:30 During the trial in appeal, the general lawyers required a year of imprisonment,

01:36 but this time with an extra year.

01:37 Fable and a lie.

01:39 Nicolas Sarkozy, as during the first trial, vigorously contested any criminal responsibility,

01:46 denouncing "fable and a lie".

01:49 His lawyer, Master Vincent Derry, pleaded his release, assuring that the former head

01:53 of state had never known of an overstepping of the legal ceiling of electoral spending

01:58 and never committed to spending.

01:59 He estimated that it was impossible for the public ministry to demonstrate the intentional

02:05 element or the material element of the offense.

02:07 Against the others warned, the general lawyers required 18 months to 4 years in prison,

02:13 all with a fine of 10,000 to 30,000 euros and prohibitions to exercise or

02:18 ineligibility for some of them.

02:20 Among those who were part of the UMP, only Jérôme Lavrieux, at the time of the facts

02:25 director of the cabinet of Jean-François Copé and assistant director of the presidential

02:29 campaign team, admitted to having covered the double-billing system.

02:33 In May 2014, he had contributed to revealing the scandal during a memorable interview

02:38 at BFM TV.

02:39 At the bar, however, he contested to have been the one who set up the ventilation system

02:45 of electoral expenses.

02:46 This case is added to other judicial troubles for Nicolas Sarkozy, he was sentenced in May

02:52 last in appeal in the case of three years of imprisonment, including a farm, a decision

02:56 against which he pleaded in a cassation.

02:58 He will also appear in 2025 for the financial suspicions of his presidential campaign

03:04 of 2007.

03:05 He was also put on trial, early October, in the case of this case related to the

03:10 retraction of the intermediate Ziad Takyeddin.

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