Nicolas Sarkozy’s jail sentence shocks France’s political class

FOR MUCH of the French Fifth Republic, the modern state established by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, criminal cases against elected politicians have often failed either to make it to court or to end in a conviction, let alone a prison sentence. On March 1st a Paris court took a step closer to ending an era of impunity. It found Nicolas Sarkozy, a centre-right president from 2007 to 2012, guilty of corruption and influence-peddling. He was sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended.

During this inquiry, in 2014, investigators stumbled upon conversations between Mr Sarkozy and Thierry Herzog, then his lawyer. Their exchanges concerned separate illegal party-financing allegations circulating at the time, linked to Liliane Bettencourt, the billionaire heiress to the L’Oréal empire. The case against the former president in the Bettencourt affair had been dropped.

The conviction of the ex-president comes after a string of cases against French politicians in recent years that have ended up with criminal convictions. These have begun to shift the sense of impunity that used to prevail. The most well-known is that of François Fillon, who was Mr Sarkozy’s former prime minister and a presidential candidate. Last year a court sentenced him to five years in prison, three of them suspended, for the embezzlement of public funds. He is now awaiting his appeal.

What I found really shocking, in case of sarkozy, is how little the French elites know about Libya although France was a colonization power in North Africa. Simply, you can't mock a Libyan guy in public and keep calling him a friend! Bedouin people don't understand sarcasm.

Wish we had a few former presidents or PM's who were sentenced to prison.

No shockmmone group of elites fukking another...

This same Sarkozy push for ousting of Muammar Gaddafi and destroyed and turned Libya into a rubble today

Shocks? Lot’s of dumb people in the world.

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