Well, we will have to put “prison” in quotes, since, in reality, the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, will not spend a minute behind bars. The most that he will be subjected to will be house arrest.
According to international media reports, an appeals court upheld the appeal filed by Nicolas Sarkozy’s defense against a sentence handed down against him in 2021… which means that His three years in prison for acts of corruption are confirmed.
The former president of France will only use an electronic bracelet
Although what has just been decided against Nicolas Sarkozy is considered a great achievement for French justice, he will not go to prison.
As established since 2021, of the three years to which the former president of France was sentenced, two were suspended, while the third will be spent with an electronic bracelet… which he will use from home, where he will be under house arrest.
In addition to walking well checked with the bracelet, Nicolas Zarkosy will see his civil rights suspended. And it seems that this is what could hurt him the most, since during the three years that his sentence lasts, nor may be elected to any type of public office.
Defense of Nicolás Sarkozy has a last instance to fight
It was in March 2021 when the former president of France was sentenced to three years in prison for the crimes of corruption and influence peddling. All as a result of an attempt to bribe a magistrate, since he wanted to obtain information about a case in which he was involved.
This is the first time in modern French history that a former president has been sentenced to prison… and, although Nicolas Sakozy will not actually go to jail, his defense has already warned that he will present an appeal before the Supreme Court of France, which would be the last (but really last) instancebefore the sentence against the former president is executed.
“Nicolas Sarkozy is innocent,” the former French president’s lawyer, Jacqueline Laffont, told reporters. “We will take this to the end. We are just at the beginning of the process.”
Nicolas Sarkozy was the president of France from 2007 to 2012. and, despite the fact that more than a decade has passed since his rule, he continues to be an influential figure in his country.
