Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will not be placed under house arrest with electronic monitoring for illegal campaign financing.
Exempt from the requirement to wear an electronic bracelet for Nicolas Sarkozy, despite conviction of him in the 2012 campaign finance case.
According to judicial sources, the decision was based on the age of the 71-year-old former president, who has faced a number of legal entanglements since his tenure as president of France.
Despite the fact that he continues to “deny all charges in all cases“, the convictions that have piled up create an unprecedented backdrop for the country’s political annals.
At the heart of the recent ruling is the infamous Bygmalion case, where the Supreme Court ruled that Sarkozy exceeded legal spending limits in his failed re-election bid, using a public relations firm to cover up the excess.
While the sentence originally called for confinement, the court ruled last Tuesday that bracelet probation would not apply. It is worth noting that Sarkozy had already served a sentence with a similar mechanism for the “Bismuthio” case, which involved an attempt to influence judicial officials and was revealed through telephone tapping.
Meanwhile, France’s former strongman remains in a judicial clampdown over alleged financing from Libya during the 2007 campaign.
He was jailed for 20 days for that case last year, becoming the first president of the modern French Republic to serve a criminal custodial sentence, while the appeal process is still ongoing.
Despite his request for merging of sentences, which was denied last March, his age was ultimately the catalyst to avoid further use of the electronic tracking device.
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