Meanwhile, he is unlikely to see any time behind bars.
A Paris court has found former French President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption – which is only the second time in modern history that a French head of state has gone down on such a charge – for which he’s been issued a sentence of three years in prison, two of which have been suspended.
Despite the prison sentence it’s expected however that the 66-year old will serve the non-suspended one year portion on probation – with an electronic bracelet and subject to a curfew.
Presiding Judge Christine Mée described in the ruling that the “particularly serious” crimes involving France’s leader who was in office 2007-2012 centered on him “using his status” as president to peddle influence for personal gain while violating state secrecy.
Sarkozy “knew what [he] was doing was wrong”, the judge wrote, adding that his actions and those of a public magistrate and personal lawyer – both which were also found guilty of aiding in the scheme – had given the public “a very bad image of justice”.
Boil that Frog.
Probation is more than any crooked democrat, fbi official or tyrannical governor will ever get.
“a very bad image of justice”?
Three years, two suspended, one on house arrest, and no actual jail time is supposed to change that image? Elites getting light ‘sentences’ while we would be put away and forgotten about four minutes after the verdict was handed down.
Hey. It’s the French. This like having an extra mistress or two…
Can we extradite Barry to France?
Whoda thunk it?
The French courts having more spine than American.
For the fun of it, let’s try our jingoist neocons.
We can’t let those trillions blown in Afghanistan go for naught.