“You will never, never find not a euro, but not a Libyan cent, in my countryside”mentioned Thursday January 9 Nicolas Sarkozy on the bar of the Paris courtroom, for his first speech at his trial. The former head of state has been on trial since Monday, like eleven different folks, for suspicion of financing his 2007 marketing campaign by Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya.
“I will answer all questions as I always have, I have always assumed my responsibilities and I intend to do so during these four months” viewers, added Mr. Sarkozy.
The first to talk for this introductory assertion, he started by mentioning, “ten years of slander, 48 hours of police custody, 60 hours of interrogation, ten years of investigation”.
“What did we find?” »he protested a number of instances. “Nothing about me. » “There is reason to be angry”he added. “Money from corruption is largely absent from this trial and for a simple reason: there is no money from corruption because there was no corruption of the candidate”asserted the previous president.
Tried till April 10 for corruption, concealment of embezzlement of public funds, unlawful marketing campaign financing and prison affiliation, Nicolas Sarkozy faces ten years in jail and a high-quality of 375,000 euros, in addition to deprivation of civil rights (due to this fact ineligibility) of as much as 5 years.
“I have no score to settle and certainly not with the institution of which I know that part of it violently fought me when I was president. Naive or enthusiastic, I trust”additionally mentioned the one who usually implicated magistrates by title within the a number of authorized proceedings concentrating on him.
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