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Former French president Sarkozy to get electronic tag after being convicted of graft

  • Nicolas Sarkozy is to wear an electronic tag after being convicted of corruption, marking a first for a former French president.
  • France's highest appeals court ordered Sarkozy to wear the tag for a year due to illegal attempts to secure favors from a judge.
  • Sarkozy and his former lawyer formed a 'Corruption Pact' with Judge Gilbert Azibert for information sharing, as found by a court.
  • Sarkozy is the first post-war French president sentenced to serve time, following a 2021 corruption verdict.
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The former French president, sentenced on 18 December for corruption, has been wearing an electronic bracelet since Friday, as he appeared before the court for the alleged financing by Libya of his 2007 campaignAs if to make a nose to justice and show that life continues, on Friday, 7 February, Nicolas Sarkozy went to jog. He had just been put on an electronic bracelet at the ankle, arrangement of the prison sentence (3 years, including a firm y…

·Geneva, Switzerland
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For the first time in history, a former head of state, Nicolas Sarkozy , president of the Republic, between 2007 and 2012, will not be able to leave his home between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. at night, sentenced to wear an electronic bracelet that allows the police to have him located at all times, after confirmation of his sentence to three years in prison, two with remission of sentence, and one replaced by the bracelet and the impossibility of leavin…

·Madrid, Spain
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France's former president wears a shackle – this image alone is unprecedented. Now he withdraws from the public for a while, but the judiciary is not yet through with Nicolas Sarkozy.

·Munich, Germany
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was wearing an electronic bracelet as part of a corruption verdict handed down in 2021. Le Monde writes about this on February 7.

·Riga, Latvia
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to wear an electronic bracelet. Such measures were taken against the former head of state as part of the execution of a court sentence in a corruption deal case in 2014. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to Le Monde. Wearing the "bracelet" by the former president in France was the first such case and an unprecedented measure, local media note. The Paris prosecutor's office re…

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Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he was giving up any media talk after the installation of his electronic bracelet, a move that marked a turning point in his public communication. This decision follows on from the judicial episode in which the ex-president was, according to him, involved in a publication X. The ex-president of France, condemned in the case of wiretapping, indicated in a communiqué that he wished to withdraw from the media debates,…

·Paris, France
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Pénzcentrum broke the news on Friday, February 7, 2025.
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