The indictment of the two lawyers general, Muriel Fusina and Yves Micolet, is expected Tuesday, December 13. La Défense will argue on Wednesday and Thursday.
by Pascale Robert-Diard
Debates basically on this case of listening to the Paris Court of Appeal ended on Monday September 12. Place, now, to the indictment and the pleadings.
What to remember from these six days of audience? On the form, undoubtedly, the atmosphere was more peaceful than in the first instance, in March 2021. Both on the side of the defense, the accusation, the lesson of excesses was drawn. It is no longer the trial of the Paris Bar against the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), the first summoning his great witnesses to the aid of one of his family, Thierry Herzog, to be indignant that we have listened to and Transcribing the conversations between a lawyer and his client, the second dispatching his chief to justify the considerable means of investigation which have been deployed.
The two sounded false. One, in this file, Thierry Herzog acted more as a forty -year -old friend, a unconditional “group” of Nicolas Sarkozy, than a lawyer, and friendship does not clean up with respect for ethics. Two, the PNF, undermined by internal dissensions, disputed in its effectiveness and concerned by its own survival did not present, in this case, the necessary serenity that all justiciable is entitled to expect from the public prosecutor.
remain before the Court of Appeal, three defendants, Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Herzog, and the ex-Magistrate Gilbert Azibert, facing listening and what they reveal. Same cleared of noise and fury of first instance, their content is indisputable.
They testify on the one hand that in 2014, worried about the consequences that the seizure of his agendas could have in the affairs which threatened him, Nicolas Sarkozy sought to find out about the position that the court of cassation vis-à-vis the validity or not, of this seizure. The former president had for this on the close relationship that his friend and lawyer Thierry Herzog had with Gilbert Azibert and the supposed interpersonal skills of the latter, member of a civil chamber of the Court of Cassation, with his peers Criminal room.
Influence the decision of the Court of Cassation
In a just as indisputable way, the transcription of these listenings reveals that Thierry Herzog, who knows that his friend Magistrate aims for his retirement an honorary position in Monaco, remunerated 5,000 euros per year, intervenes twice with Nicolas Sarkozy so that he touches a word from his relationships in the principality – “He told me about something about Monaco … A position that is released, he made a request, he is apparently well placed, but he Said, “uh, I dare not ask, maybe I will have to a boost” ” – and that the former president formally undertakes to intervene in his favor:” He wants to work to work Monaco? Okay, well, don’t worry, tell him that I will take care of it because I go to Monaco and I will see the prince … “
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