An Electronic Bracelet for Sarkozy: an Unprecedented Case For France
On Friday 7 February, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began wearing an electronic bracelet following a court order in the so-called wiretapping case.
This was reported by France24.
This measure is unprecedented for a former head of state. Now Sarkozy is allowed to leave the house only from 8:00 to 20:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, when he has been appearing since 6 January at a trial on suspicion of Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.
‘The procedure is taking its course, I have no comment,’ Jacqueline Laffont, Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer, told the press. The latter's entourage also did not want to respond.
However, the ex-head of state will be able to apply for conditional release for persons aged 70 and over, which he turned last week.
As reported by The Gaze, Sarkozy was originally sentenced in March 2021 in Paris. He was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling, and sentenced to three years in prison, with two years suspended.
Sarkozy's lawyer, Thierry Herzog, and former high-ranking employee of the Court of Cassation, Gilbert Azibert, were also found guilty of corruption.
According to investigators, Sarkozy promised to help Azibert in obtaining a position in the Principality of Monaco in exchange for confidential information about the investigation into illegal financing of his election campaign by French company L'Oréal.
Investigators had wiretapped the politician's phone conversations since 2013.
Sarkozy was President of France from 2007 to 2012.
He called himself a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.