On the shut of its three-day listening to in a trial that started on January 6, the prosecutor additionally requested 5 years of political disqualification for the 69-year-old Parisian, who ruled from 2007 to 2012.
Sarkozy faces justice on prices of corruption, legal conspiracy, and use of cash agreed upon with former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who was assassinated in 2011. These prices have additionally been introduced in opposition to a number of of his associates.
The previous president maintains his innocence and argues that the offenses he’s accused of lack stable proof, solely hypotheses.
Nevertheless, of their statements this week, prosecutors have said they’ve little question concerning the former head of state’s guilt, based mostly on investigations into his presidential marketing campaign for the 2007 elections and numerous testimonies.
Extreme sentences have additionally been sought in opposition to different defendants, together with former ministers Claude Guéant (six years in jail) and Brice Hortefeux (three), and businessmen Alexandre Djouhri (5) and Ziad Takieddine (six), the latter of whom was a kind of who testified about Gaddafi handing over €50 million to Sarkozy.
In accordance with prosecutors akin to Sébastien de la Touanne, the people named within the case painted a grim image of the French Republic, with a “Faustian corruption pact with probably the most diabolical dictators.”
In earlier periods, his colleague Quentin Dandoy had detailed parts of the corruption chain, claiming that Sarkozy himself validated the accounts.
Beginning Monday, the protection will current its arguments in response to requests from the Nationwide Monetary Prosecutor’s Workplace.
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