French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in October

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in October

Agence France-Presse
Wed 8 Jan 2020 15.05 GMT
Last modified on Wed 8 Jan 2020 15.51 GMT

Nicolas Sarkozy will become France’s first former president to stand trial on corruption charges in a case in which he is accused of trying to obtain classified information from a judge.

The trial will start on 5 October 2020 and will last until 22 October, a Paris court said.

This will be the first trial in several corruption investigations against Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012.

Jacques Chirac, who died last September, was the first former president to be put on trial. In 2011, he was found guilty of embezzlement and misuse of public funds during his time as mayor of Paris.

Sarkozy stands accused of seeking to obtain, through his lawyer Thierry Herzog, classified information from then-judge Gilbert Azibert in 2014 about an investigation.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/08/french-ex-president-nicolas-sarkozy-to-be-tried-on-graft-charges

[emmaverybo]

1. So Chirac was also the first former president to stand trial? Am I misreading?

[WheelWalker]

2. One the first (for embezzlement); the other the first (for corruption)?

[emmaverybo]

3. Maybe that's the deal, each first in a different misconduct or crime.