{"id":913760,"date":"2024-02-14T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/?p=913760"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:05:17","slug":"french-court-upholds-sarkozy-guilty-verdict-cuts-sentence-to-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/en\/latest-news\/2024-02-14\/french-court-upholds-sarkozy-guilty-verdict-cuts-sentence-to-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"French court upholds Sarkozy guilty verdict, cuts sentence to six months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paris, Feb 14 (EFE).- A French appeals court on Wednesday confirmed former president Nicolas Sarkozy\u2019s sentence for illegal financing of his 2012 reelection bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court also reduced Sarkozy\u2019s one-year sentence from 2021 to six months in prison, with six months suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyers representing Sarkozy, 69, who has insisted he is innocent, said he would appeal the latest ruling to the Supreme Court, meaning he will not yet be imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-913819\" style=\"width:720px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-430x286.jpeg 430w, https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64-1200x801.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-64.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courthouse after being convicted to one year in prison with six months suspended by the Paris appeals court for exceeding the electoral spending ceiling during his presidential campaign in 2012, at the Justice Palace in Paris, France, 14 February 2024. EFE\/EPA\/YOAN VALAT<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarkozy, the first former French head of state to be sentenced to a prison sentence in another case, went to the Court of Appeal in Paris to hear the verdict, but left the courthouse without making a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In remarks to the press, his lawyer, Vincent Desry, said Sarkozy would appeal to the Supreme Court, calling the verdict &#8220;questionable&#8221;, while reiterating that his client &#8220;is innocent&#8221; and that &#8220;no evidence implicates him&#8221; in the facts of which he is accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest sentence means Sarkozy faces up to a year and half in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May last year, the Court of Appeal confirmed a one-year sentence in a case of influence peddling. That case is also being heard by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will also be tried next year for allegedly financing his 2007 campaign \u2013 which won him the presidency \u2013 with money from the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In parallel to the latter investigation, Sarkozy is also being prosecuted for trying to pressure a key witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarkozy is also implicated in a corruption probe relating to Qatar\u2019s successful 2022 World Cup bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the case of the illegal financing of the 2012 campaign \u2013 which he lost to Socialist Fran\u00e7ois Hollande \u2013 the judges found that a system of false invoices had been created through a company called Bygmalion to conceal the expenses and thereby exceed the legally permitted spending limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former president spent nearly 43 million euros \u2013 almost double the allowed amount \u2013 in an attempt to reverse polls that predicted he would lose the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although in the first instance the magistrates found no link between Sarkozy and the scheme of false invoices, they found that he must have been aware of it and that he had pushed for more rallies to be held, despite official warnings about the campaign\u2019s high spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former president denounced the allegations as &#8220;fabrications&#8221; and &#8220;lies&#8221; during the appeal trial held between November 8 and December 7, in which he tried to deflect responsibility to members of his campaign and Bygmalion, whom he accuses of having enriched themselves at his expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After hearing the sentence, his lawyer said &#8220;Sarkozy is innocent&#8221; and compared his client&#8217;s conviction with the acquittal last week of former minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, a centrist ally of the president, Emmanuel Macron, in a case of illegal financing of his political party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On that occasion, despite ruling that MEPs of Bayrou&#8217;s party had used European Parliament assistants for party functions, the court found that he was not responsible, despite being the party president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, the judges have ruled that Sarkozy was indeed responsible for the scheme of false invoices from which he benefited, although there is no evidence that he knew of their existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His lawyer Desry decried \u201cdouble standards&#8221; and insisted that the legal precedent set by the Bayrou case should mean the former president should have been acquitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desert said that a &#8220;combative&#8221; Sarkozy would continue to fight to prove his innocence. 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