Faced with the Paris Court of Appeal which dissects his exchanges with his lawyer, the former head of state occupies all the space. Indignant or humorous projections, which take up the same arguments as during its judgment at first instance.
by Samuel Laurent
“We are on a totally affectionate, disjointed conversation, with my Thierry. He says” uh “,” uh “,” uh “, it was,” uh “,” uh “… well here, he does not ‘did not say anything. “Machine cutting, strengthened by force gestures and intonations intended to strengthen the funny thing of the subject: Nicolas Sarkozy could undoubtedly have had a career in stand-up, this exercise where a comic, alone on stage, makes Lica l ‘Audience to the story of his setbacks.
The Paris Court of Appeal is not a café-theater. But, on the fourth day of his trial in the so -called “bismuth” case – the borrowing patronym found by his lawyer, Thierry Herzog, when he bought a phone intended to discreetly chat with his client -, the Former head of state mobilizes, as often, physical and sound space. And all his tribune talents, passing through comic as by the tragic or anger, not hesitating to challenge, or even raise the tone, facing the lawyers as well as the president, Sophie Clément.
The Court initiated the methodical examination of conversations held in 2014 with M e Herzog about their informant within the Court of Cassation, the former magistrate Gilbert Azibert. The latter informed them about the journey of the advisers who were to make a crucial decision: authorizing or not the seizure of Mr. Sarkozy’s agendas within the framework of the Bettencourt affair. In exchange for his information, according to the accusation, the promise of an intervention by the former Head of State to allow Mr. Azibert to obtain an honorary position in the Principality of Monaco.
“Chattering”
A “corruption pact,” said the court at first instance. Absolutely not, insists Mr. Sarkozy. Thierry Herzog, linked by professional secrecy, cannot express themselves on these conversations. Gilbert Azibert is not very talkative. But Nicolas Sarkozy speaks for three, and is working to demonstrate his good faith on each word, or almost, transcripts.
Demonstration on listening, where the former President of the Republic said to Thierry Herzog, about Gilbert Azibert: “Me, I make him go up (…) I will help him (…) Call him and dis- He that I will help him, I’m going to Monaco, I will meet the prince. “Nicolas Sarkozy assures that we should not see the proof of a promise of support for a position. And to tell how “Thierry learns”, during a dinner, that Mr. Sarkozy goes to Monaco with his wife for a vacation. “It is because I am going to Monaco that he asks me the question. If my wife had wanted to go and do a cure in Vichy, the problem did not arise.”
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