CASE OF NICOLAS SARKOSY WILL BE

JUDGE FOR CORRUPTION

The Court of Cassation rejected Tuesday, June 18, the last appeals filed by Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer Thierry Herzog and the former high magistrate of the Court of Cassation Gilbert Azibert to avoid a trial for "corruption" and "trading in influence" .

The court has finally validated the referral to the criminal court of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, prosecuted including the "corruption" of a senior magistrate of the Court of Cassation in this case revealed by wiretapping. Messrs. Herzog and Azibert will also be tried for "breach of professional secrecy".

The secret phone of "Paul Bismuth".

In a document, the judges of the national financial prosecutor's office PNF ensured that the investigation of the judges had

"Highlighted heavy and concordant charges against MM. Azibert, Herzog and Sarkozy ", going so far as to compare the methods used by the former president and his lawyer to those of" senior offenders "including the recourse, to communicate confidentially, to the false identity of" Paul Bismuth "...

Investigators had realized that the former president, placed on tapping in another investigation, and his lawyer communicated via cell phones acquired under a false identity, including that of Paul Bismuth for Mr. Sarkozy. The former head of state is suspected of having attempted to obtain secret information from Gilbert Azibert at the beginning of 2014, via his lawyer Thierry Herzog, in proceedings concerning the seizure of his agendas in the Bettencourt affair in exchange for a boost for a prestigious position in Monaco.

But according to Me Jacqueline Laffont, the Court of Cassation would however "not dismiss the legal grounds" raised by the defense and left the court "the care to settle" ( Le Monde ).

According to her, "these legal issues therefore remain relevant, in particular that relating to the prohibition by the European Court of Human Rights to use retranscriptions of wiretaps with its lawyer against a litigant".