Bygmalion affair: Nicolas Sarkozy should serve his jail sentence | EUROtoday
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Return to jail for Nicolas Sarkozy? The former president should serve his six-month jail sentence within the Bygmalion case, mentioned Monday March 9, a supply near the case, the prison court docket having refused to confuse this sentence with that of the Bismuth case.
The former head of state can nonetheless attraction this resolution, which might drive him to put on an digital bracelet once more.
His lawyer refused to make any remark after the judgment was delivered behind closed doorways, in “council chambers”.
Definitively convicted in these two circumstances, the previous president, 71, wished to merge the sentences in order to not have to hold out the second, having already served the primary.
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In the Bygmalion case, Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on February 14, 2024 by the Paris Court of Appeal to at least one yr of imprisonment, together with six months, for the unlawful financing of his misplaced 2012 presidential marketing campaign. This conviction turned remaining on November 26, 2025 with the rejection of his attraction by the Court of Cassation.
Three separate prison circumstances
His sentence on attraction, which the court docket had ordered to be adjusted for the mounted half (digital bracelet, semi-freedom, and so on.), was barely decrease than that of 1 yr of mounted imprisonment handed down at first occasion, in 2021.
This case turned the second point out in Nicolas Sarkozy’s prison file after his sentence to a few years in jail, together with one yr beneath an digital bracelet for corruption and affect peddling within the wiretapping affair, additionally referred to as Bismuth, remaining since December 2024.
For Bismuth, the previous champion of the fitting wore an digital bracelet from February 7 to May 12, 2025. Aged then 70, he had requested and obtained conditional launch earlier than mid-sentence, attainable at this age.
Confusion of sentences is supplied for by article 132-4 of the Penal Code.
Nicolas Sarkozy could have one other assembly with the courts from March 16 with the opening of the Libyan attraction trial. The ex-president was sentenced to 5 years in jail at first occasion for prison conspiracy and served roughly three weeks in detention.
With AFP
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