Ten years to be “persecuted” earlier than a conviction “unfair”, a verdict “unthinkable” counting on a “false document”a detention “ubiquitous”, “as unjustified as it is useless”… Pass A Prisoner’s Diary (Fayard, 216 pages, 20.90 euros) to the phrase counter provides an eloquent outcome. The vocabulary of injustice comes up greater than 80 occasions. An actual hammering, which finds its peak within the passage the place Nicolas Sarkozy compares himself to Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), wrongly convicted of excessive treason. He acknowledges, nevertheless, that he was not relegated like him for greater than 4 years on Devil’s Island, “in distant Guyana”. Only twenty-one days in La Santé jail in Paris.
Suffice to say that this new e-book isn’t solely an affidavit written on the spot by the primary former president of the French Republic to have been convicted and imprisoned. For Nicolas Sarkozy, it constitutes above all a brand new weapon in a authorized battle removed from over, and, past that, a political instrument, used to depart in historical past the picture of an harmless particular person unjustly detained slightly than a prison.
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