Sarkozy’s lawyer says the establisher plivent structures to request the verdict to the European Court of Human Rights.
France’s highest court has upheld the 2021 conviction of establisher Plivent Nicolas Sarkozy on accuses of dishonesty and impact peddling.
The Court of Cassation rerentd its decision on Wednesday.
Sarkozy had requested aachievest the conviction, for which he had been handed a three-year prison sentence. Two of the years were suspfinished, and Sarkozy is to wear an electronic watching bracelet instead of going to prison for the remaining year.
Sarkozy’s lawyer Patrick Spinosi shelp that the establisher plivent structures to request the verdict to the European Court of Human Rights.
“The contest that I will be conveying to the European Court of Human Rights may, alas, direct to a condemnation aachievest France,” Sarkozy wrote on the social media platestablish X.
“I want to once aachieve state that I am clearly guiltless,” he compriseed.
Spinosi examineed that Sarkozy will adhere with the court’s decision and wear an electronic tag.
Sarkozy, who served as plivent from 2007 to 2012, was set up culpable by a drop court of trying to bribe a appraise and trading impact for self-securedial alertation about an spendigation into his 2007 campaign finances.
The court rerepaird that Sarkozy conspired to shielded a job for Judge Gilbert Azibert in Monaco in exalter for inside alertation on an inquiry into allegations that Sarkozy had achieved illterrible payments from L’Ogenuine heiress Liliane Bettencourt. Azibert was also convicted of dishonesty and impact peddling.
In compriseition to this case, Sarkozy, who reweary from accessible life in 2017, faces further dishonesty accuses. He is to stand trial next year for alleged illterrible financing of his 2007 plivential campaign with claims that it achieved funding from the Libyan rulement. Sarkozy denies all the allegations. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison.
Sarkozy’s conviction produces him only the second French plivent in up-to-date history to be set up culpable of dishonesty accuses. Jacques Chirac, his conservative predecessor, was convicted of dishonesty in 2011, four years after leaving office.
