US EditionFrance’s Ex-President Sarkozy Maintains Innocence in Libya Funding Appeal Trial
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Unsurprisingly, the former head of state declared his innocence this Wednesday before the Paris Court of Appeal, at the start of the debate on the alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign. He will be questioned about the facts at the beginning of April.
A particularly sober and laconic Nicolas Sarkozy repeated on Wednesday, at his appeal trial on the charges of Libyan financing his 2007 victorious presidential campaign, not having "committed any of the facts" that resulted in his historic first instance conviction.
The first two days of the appeal hearing of Libyan financings were devoted to procedural issues. The defence of the former head of state calls for the granting of presidential immunity. "Nicolas Sarkozy has denatured the presidential function to act in the context of a delictual process,"" replied the Advocate General.
According to his lawyers, the former Head of State should be tried by the Court of Justice of the Republic because he is accused of a pact of corruption which would have been established while he was Minister of the Interior.
France’s ex-president Sarkozy maintains innocence in Libya funding appeal trial
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday maintained his innocence as he returned to court to appeal his conviction for seeking financing from Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi to fund his 2007 presidential campaign. If Sarkozy loses his appeal, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
On 17 March, on the second day of the appeal hearing of the Libyan trial, against the background of deaf tensions, the defences of Nicolas Sarkozy and Brice Hortefeux attempted to obtain the referral of the case to the Court of Justice of the Republic. However, for the Attorney General's Office, Nicolas Sarkozy cannot avail himself of any presidential immunity.
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