After the confirmation on appeal of his three-year prison sentence, one of which is firm in the wiretapping case, Nicolas Sarkozy counterattacks in an interview with Figaro published this Friday, May 19 in the morning. The former French president does not want to let go and reaffirms that he will go ” at the end of his fight to have his innocence recognized
Once again, Nicolas Sarkozy chose to intervene in a media to make his truth heard. The former Head of State affirms: In this case, everything is factually false, legally illegal and morally insane. “. His counter-attack will therefore go through an appeal in cassation, a fight “ long “, which he wants to lead by placing himself on the level of the law and by contesting the legality of the “wiretapping” with his lawyer on which the accusations are based.
Same line of defense
It is always the same line of defense and always the questioning of a relentlessness of the magistrates with whom his relations are notoriously conflictual. Nicolas Sarkozy “does” Nicolas Sarkozy by showing his unwavering pugnacity and declares: “ I am a fighter, the truth will eventually triumph. »
Sarkozy distills some political messages
He also takes advantage of this interview to distill a few political messages, again pleading for an alliance between the current head of state and Les Républicains (LR) who, he notes, “ lack to Emmanuel Macron to reach the absolute majority. You have to take an initiative where no one will lose their soul “. A call for a political agreement on behalf of “ national interest which goes in the same direction as that which he had launched after the presidential election and which had already not been heard.
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