The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (FNF), dependent on the Paris judicial court, accuses Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, of criminal association in an organized gang, corruption of witnesses and fraudulent fraud.
Convicted of very similar crimes to five years in prison, at the end … In October, the former French president spent twenty days in the Parisian prison of La Santé, where he wrote a 265-page book, “The Diary of a Prisoner”, which dethroned Asterix and Obelix as the bestseller of the season.
Pending the review of this sentence next March, the FNF announced Tuesday afternoon the opening of a new trial against the former president, accused, with his wife, of criminal association in an organized gang, corruption of witnesses and fraudulent fraud.
In the opinion of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the former president and his wife, a big news, committed these alleged crimes to get an annoying witness to withdraw his accusations about the millions that Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, had given to the men who organized a presidential campaign.
Sarkozy has already been convicted in two other similar scandals. And the review of the last process and two other future processes still awaits him, for alleged crimes still linked to the financing of his unfortunate political life.
The big news is the decision of the Paris prosecutor’s office to accuse Carla Bruni of very similar crimes, accompanying her husband in the legal tribulations to come.
Doubly unique case
This is a doubly unique case in the political history of France: a former president convicted and persecuted by a series of scandals; and a first lady, a former famous model, persecuted for the same crimes.
Neither the Sarkozys nor their lawyers wished to comment on the prosecutor’s announcement. On the contrary, the “Sarkozy” tribulations have taken on a certain international dimension. The ‘New Yorker’, the influential weekly of New York’s cultural elites, published a long report recounting, with great color, another type of misery.
When, a few months ago, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor was forced to withdraw this decoration from Sarkozy, the former president would have dared to ask: “Would it not be possible to negotiate and avoid this withdrawal?” The anecdote earned Sarkozy the thankless title of “France’s first sausage”.
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