The lawyer of the former Minister of the Interior said he would request the referral of the trial. His client has contracted “several severe pathologies” during his incarceration.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Minister of the Interior Claude Guéant was “hospitalized urgently”, Monday, February 14, to “undergo surgery”, announced his lawyer to the France-Presse agency. The 77-year-old man, who already suffered “heart problems” contracted “several severe additional pathologies” during his two-month incarceration at the Paris Prison, said M e Philippe Mouch El Ghozi on the eve of the opening of the trial of Mr. Guéant for “scam” of campaign fees.
m. Guéant had been incarcerated from December 13th to February 9, because justice had felt that he did not make the necessary efforts to pay the sums he had been sentenced to pay in 2017 in the case of premiums. liquid from the Ministry of the Interior. He has been providing, since, conditional freedom.
At his hospital release, Mr. Guéant “will have to rest at home for a dozen days, and hopes to be able to find his full capacities in about a month,” added his advice.
M e Philippe El Ghozi will ask Tuesday morning the removal of his trial, which must open Tuesday in Nanterre. Secretary General of the Elysée under Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr. Guéant was to be judged for “scammers” for the reimbursement of the expenses of his 2012 legislative campaign, after the diffusion of a leaflet in his favor by the Mayor Ump (since the Republicans) of Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).
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The offense is punishable by five years imprisonment and € 375,000. The one who was also prefect and general director of the National Police should also appear before the Criminal Court for “Illicit” campaign.
Among the defendants also appears Pierre-Christophe Baguet, Mayor Republicans (LR) of Boulogne-Billancourt, for “Illicit financing” campaign. In this file, the accusation accuses MM. Baguet and heating to have sought to finance electoral propaganda expenses in support of Claude’s candidacy by the City of Boulogne-Billancourt. The two defendants formally contempt these charges.
m. Gueant must, moreover, be rejected in the Elysee’s poll file, after appealing to his conviction on 21 January to one year of imprisonment, of whom eight months ago, for favoritism. It also remains indicted in the case of Libyan funding suspicions of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign in 2007.
