Nicolas Sarkozy declares “renouncing any media expression” and “put in parentheses” his public actions as an ex-president | EUROtoday

“I decided to put on parentheses my public activities as former president, and to give up any media expression”stated Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday February 8 on X, twenty-four hours after being put in an digital bracelet after his conviction within the listening case.

“I will continue to exercise my professional life as I have received the right”added the lawyer by career, whereas the previous head of the State can now go away his dwelling between 8 am and eight pm-until 9:30 p.m., the listening to days within the trial in The case of suspicions of Libyan funding from his 2007 marketing campaign, for which he was warned earlier than the Paris Criminal Court till April 10.

In the listening case, the ex-head of the State was definitively sentenced to a 12 months of agency imprisonment fitted below digital bracelet, for corruption and affect visitors. An digital jail administration agent got here to his dwelling on Friday to place the bracelet on his ankle, and configure the system.

An enchantment to the European Court of Human Rights

This process had been launched after the rejection, on December 18, 2024, of his enchantment in cassation, the final potential enchantment earlier than the French courts.

In his message on X, the previous President of the Republic (2007-2012) claims that he’ll deposit “Before the end of the month” an enchantment to the European Court of Human Rights, “Who will say if I have been the victim, as I believe, of an injustice and will draw all the consequences”.

However, this isn’t suspensive of the sentence pronounced.