A Former French President’s Prison Pity Party
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A Former French President’s Prison Pity Party
France and America have much in common: parallel 18th-century revolutions, a shared commitment to universal ideals, the same three colors on the flag. And both countries have recently put their institutions through an unprecedented stress test. They each put a flamboyant ex-president on trial for serious, election-related crimes. Nicolas Sarkozy, whose Paris corruption trial ended in September, responded to his accusers with the kind of bombast …
The American ambassador in Paris tried to meet Nicolas Sarkozy in prison. The former President of the Republic himself revealed the information in his latest book. This diplomatic gesture, unprecedented in this context, alarm magistrates and jurists...
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