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The French Prosecutor’s Office He claimed this Monday that the former president Nicolas Sarkozy be put released under judicial control measures after 20 days in prison after being sentenced to five years in prison for illegally financing the campaign that brought him to the Elysée in 2007 with money from the eccentric Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Thus, they have maintained that the former president must be prohibited from contacting witnesses and other parties in the case to avoid any type of interference in the process, within the framework of a hearing whose resolution is scheduled for this same Monday at 1:30 p.m. and that could lead to Sarkozy’s release from prison.
The former president himself, who appeared by videoconference, has reiterated that “will never admit” having claimed financing from Gaddafi
before stating that his stay in prison is “a terrible experiencea nightmare“, as reported by the television network BFM TV. “It’s hard, it’s very hard”he added.
This Monday’s hearing takes place after Sarkozy’s lawyers appealed his sentence, a process that is expected to take place in 2026, so the request revolves around the possibility of him not remaining in prison until his sentence is weighed or ratified on appeal.
Victim of a “judicial scandal”
Sarkozy entered prison on October 21, denouncing that he was victim of a “judicial scandal” that has “humiliated” France.
The former conservative leader, who became the first former president of France to go to prison, has always denied any irregularity and has denounced a alleged political persecution against him through the courts.
Sarkozy, who has imprisoned 20 days and, before the court, he denounced again this Monday “a manipulation” in relation to documents that implicated trusted men in his cabinet with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to obtain money for the 2007 French presidential election campaign, which he won.
The former French head of state between 2007 and 2012 answered questions from the Court of Appeal by videoconference, accompanied by two of his lawyers, and with signs of restlessness and fatigue.
Dressed in a navy blue jacket, the conservative leader tried to clarify to the judges that there is no flight risk that justifies prison and sought to move them by describing prison as a “nightmare.”
his wife, Carla Bruni, Two of his four children (Jean and Pierre) and his brother François were present in a courtroom with enormous media expectation and in which cell phones were confiscated by the authorities to avoid capturing images or sounds during the hearing.