{"id":5375,"date":"2026-05-13T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:31:00","slug":"nicolas-sarkozy-proposal-for-seven-years-in-prison-a-fine-of-300000-euros-and-deprivation-of-political-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Sarkozy: proposal for seven years in prison, a fine of 300,000 euros and deprivation of political rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The <b>prosecution<\/b> proposal remains unchanged in the second instance, with the <b>French<\/b> judicial authorities calling for an exemplary punishment for <b>Sarkozy <\/b>for his links to the Gaddafi regime.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The <b>imposition of a prisonment of seven years<\/b>, accompanied by a <b>fine of 300,000 euros<\/b> and <b>five years&#8217; disqualification from voting<\/b>, has been reintroduced by the prosecution against former <b>French president Nicolas Sarkozy<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The case concerns allegations of <b>illegal financing of his 2007 election campaign by the Muammar Gaddafi regime<\/b>, a case that has caused strong tremors in the French political scene. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Prosecutor General Rodolphe Jouy-Birman, maintaining the same tough stance he had displayed at first instance, stressed before the court the <b>need for the former president to be treated without favour<\/b>, like any other citizen, and <b>to be punished in proportion to the gravity of the acts attributed to him<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The proposal reflects the willingness of the judicial authorities to fully unravel the shadows surrounding the sources of the 2007 campaign&#8217;s funding, while <b>Sarkozy continues to deny any accusation, citing political persecution.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecution&#8217;s proposal remains unchanged in the second instance, with French judicial authorities calling for Sarkozy to be made an example of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}