The French Supreme Court of Justice (Cour de Cassation) rejected the arguments presented by Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed the conviction of the former President within the scope of the csmoke Bygmalionrelated to the illegal financing of the failed 2012 presidential campaign, advance the “The World”.
The court analyzed the appeal filed after the conviction in the first instance, which means that the conviction is final.
The highest instance of French justice points out that in addition to the former head of state, the head of campaign [Guillaume Lambert] and the two directors of the political party who supported him [Eric Cesari e Pierre Chassat] are guilty.
Sarkozy was sentenced to one year in prisonof which six months will be effectively served by alternative sentences: monitoring with an electronic bracelet or partial restriction of freedom regime.
This decision constitutes the second definitive penalty in the register of the former head of state. In December 2024, the Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence of Sarkozy, aged 70, to one year in prison with an electronic bracelet, for corruption and influence peddling in the so-called wiretapping case.
The former leader of the French right is now preparing for the trial of his appeal in the Libyan case: he allegedly allowed his collaborators to approach Libya, led at the time by dictator Muammar Gaddafi, to request secret financing for his 2007 presidential campaign. scheduled for the period from March 16th to June 3rd.
Caso Bygmalion
The Bygmalion Case investigated a double invoicing and use of false invoices intended to hide excessive expenses in the 2012 election campaign. Spending will have reached almost double the legal limit, in a campaign that Sarkozy would end up losing to François Hollande.
The former President always denied having been aware of the scheme or having benefited from it. At the center of the investigation was Bygmalion, a service company responsible for organizing campaign events.