2024-02-14T16:35:20+00:00
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/ The Paris Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday to imprison former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for one year, including six months suspended, on charges of exceeding the spending ceiling during his campaign for the presidential elections that he lost in 2012.
The court president explained while reading the verdict that the prison term would be modified from the sentence imposed on the former president (2007-2012) in the “Pygmalion” case, the name of the company that organized his election campaign meetings.
The former president was sentenced in September 2021 to one year in prison, and the criminal court requested that the sentence be carried out directly at home under electronic surveillance.
Sarkozy and nine other defendants appealed the verdict and were retried between November 8 and December 7.
Unlike the other defendants, the former president is not being prosecuted for forged invoices aimed at concealing his campaign expenses, which amounted to nearly 43 million euros, while the legal ceiling is 22.5 million euros.
The former president, as he did during the first trial, “vehemently denied any criminal responsibility,” denouncing what he described as “lies.”