Nicolas Sarkozy can be scheduled for March 9 on his request for confusion of sentences within the Bismuth and Bygmalion instances | EUROtoday

The Paris legal courtroom, which examined Nicolas Sarkozy’s request for confusion between his two remaining sentences within the Bismuth and Bygmalion instances on Monday February 23 behind closed doorways, will render its choice on March 9, mentioned a supply near the case.

During the private listening to, referred to as “in the council chamber”the previous head of state requested that his sentence of six months in jail however topic to vary within the Bygmalion case be thought-about as served resulting from his carrying of an digital bracelet final 12 months for the Bismuth affair. His lawyer, M^e Vincent Desry didn’t want to make any feedback following the listening to.

In the Bygmalion case, Mr. Sarkozy was sentenced, on February 14, 2024, by the Paris Court of Appeal, to at least one 12 months’s imprisonment, together with six months, for the unlawful financing of his misplaced 2012 presidential marketing campaign. This conviction grew to become remaining on November 26 with the rejection of his attraction by the Court of Cassation.

His sentence on attraction, which the courtroom had ordered to be adjusted for the agency half (digital bracelet, semi-freedom, and many others.), was barely decrease than that of 1 12 months of agency imprisonment handed down at first occasion, in 2021.

Libyan attraction trial opens on March 16

This case grew to become the second point out in Mr. Sarkozy’s legal report after his sentence to 3 years in jail, together with one 12 months 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 proper wore an digital bracelet from February 7 to May 12, 2025. Aged then 70, he requested and obtained conditional launch earlier than mid-sentence, doable at this age.

Confusion of sentences is offered for by article 132-4 of the Penal Code. Its request is barely doable if the next standards are met: separate procedures, offenses “in competition” (dedicated successively earlier than a remaining conviction), penalties of the identical nature and which have turn out to be definitive.

The choice is predicted to be reserved and is topic to attraction. Nicolas Sarkozy could have one other assembly with the courts from March 16 with the opening of the Libyan attraction trial. The former President of the Republic was sentenced to 5 years in jail at first occasion for legal conspiracy and served roughly three weeks in detention.