Bygmalion trial: six months in prison required against Nicolas Sarkozy

Published on : 06/17/2021 – 4:44 PM

A one-year prison sentence including a six-month suspended sentence and a 3,750 euros fine were required, Thursday, June 17, against Nicolas Sarkozy, tried before the Paris Criminal Court for the excessive spending of his campaign presidential election of 2012.

At the end of a two-part indictment, prosecutors underlined the ex-head of state’s “total flippancy” in managing the finances of a “massive gold” campaign, which cost nearly double the authorized limit. Nicolas Sarkozy, absent from the hearing, has been on trial since May 20 alongside 13 other defendants.

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Sentences ranging from eighteen months to four years in prison suspended were also required against the 13 other co-convicts tried alongside the former head of state.

Prosecutors notably asked for three years in prison and a 50,000 euro fine for the former deputy campaign director, Jérôme Lavrilleux, the only one to have recognized the fraud. Against the three former executives of Bygmalion who admitted to having accepted the establishment of the system of false invoices, eighteen months of suspended prison were required.

With AFP