Reply With QuoteBourbon (03-01-2021)
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail in historic ruling
This former president of France, is going to prison for three years! So we should not have a problem in this country, sending Trump to prison, if he is found guilty in upcoming court cases?!!
Paris (CNN) A French court on Monday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, but suspended two years of the sentence.
President from 2007 to 2012, he was found guilty of trying to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about an ongoing investigation into his campaign finances.
The judge said Sarkozy did not need to serve time in jail. He could serve the sentence by wearing an electronic bracelet at home.
The 66-year-old is the first president to have been sentenced to jail in France's modern history.
The Paris prosecutor had requested a two-year prison sentence and a two-year suspended sentence for Sarkozy and his co-defendants, his lawyer Thierry Herzog and former magistrate Gilbert Azibert.
Herzog and Azibert were found guilty and handed prison sentences.
After a lengthy investigation and legal entanglements, the trial began at the end of last year. The judge handed down Sarkozy's sentence Monday afternoon in front of a full courtroom.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/01/europ...ntl/index.html
No one is above the Law!
Last edited by signalmankenneth; 03-01-2021 at 07:33 PM.
Bourbon (03-01-2021)
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Good precedent.
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Because France is America right? STFU. You and Cartoon Ken have to be inbred siblings.Originally Posted by BidenPresident
Oderint dum metuant
What an idiot. Our legal system is entirely different from the French one.
Educate yourself: https://about-france.com/french-legal-system.htm
From your own OP: The judge said Sarkozy did not need to serve time in jail.
Also, "suspended sentence".
ButterMilk Man
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What a weak BS case.
The French are disintegrating as a society.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
ButterMilk Man
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https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/art...80_823448.htmlDuring the three weeks of the so-called "eavesdropping" trial, which was held at the end of November and the beginning of December, the lawyers of the three defendants, Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer at the time, Thierry Herzog, and Gilbert Azibert denounced "fantasies" , a "trial of intent" based on "illegal" wiretapping and pleaded for release in the face of a "desert of evidence" . The most striking being, according to their lawyers, that Nicolas Sarkozy did not succeed before the Court of Cassation, and that Gilbert Azibert did not obtain the promotion he hoped for either.
English via Google Translate.
I have no use for Sarkozy, but this case is BS, and that is what matters.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
Oderint dum metuant
No, what matters is that Cartoon Ken's OP is a lie, because Sarkozy isn't going to jail, and out legal system is based on common law, unlike the French one.
It's also not a "historic ruling."
From Cartoon Ken's own source: In 2011, former president Jacques Chirac was found guilty of misuse of public funds and given a two-year suspended prison sentence for the employment of fictitious officials when he was mayor of Paris in the early 1990s. The last French head of state to be sentenced to jail was Marshal Philippe Pétain in 1945
ButterMilk Man
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Wrong, he was sentenced to a year in jail, and given permission to ask for an alternative....so the title is correct.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
Oderint dum metuant
Is that so?
From the OP: A French court on Monday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling, but suspended two years of the sentence. The judge said Sarkozy did not need to serve time in jail.
Now, compare that to Cartoon's Ken's gloating BS: This former president of France, is going to prison for three year! (sic)
ButterMilk Man
JPP Contributor
Yes, the title is correct, the first lines in the OP are wrong.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
Oderint dum metuant
So, Sarkozy is not going to jail at all, much less "going to prison for three year!" (sic).
ButterMilk Man
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Sarkozy claims that this is all about retribution for actions he took re the courts as President, which might be true.....but my instincts tell me that this is more about the countries elites making a scape goat out of Sarkozy as they try to deal with the fact that increasingly the Little People of France have lost faith in their leaders as a group. France as a society is in free fall.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
ButterMilk Man
JPP Contributor
I changed that post....it is always a good idea to give me a couple of minutes, I change and improve a lot of my posts immediately after posting, a habit I got into at A2k because all too often the system crashed and I lost all that I had typed...I post fast and then correct.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
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“Vive la France”! (tête de bite)
Oderint dum metuant
No, he's not.
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