France's Sarkozy likely to avoid jail despite new conviction

[Justice matters.]

Summary
Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of illegal campaign financing
Former president receives a one-year jail sentence
Sarkozy is unlikely to spend time in prison

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Paris court on Thursday after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid.

Sarkozy, 66, is unlikely to go to jail. He decided to appeal the sentence, a move that in effect suspends it, and the judge said he could serve the sentence at home with an electronic tag.

"I just ask the law to be the same for me as for any other citizen (...) I appealed for the court to dispense justice. I will go all the way in this quest", Sarkozy said on social media.

The second conviction this year for Sarkozy is a stunning fall from grace for the man who led France from 2007 to 2012 and retains influence among conservatives.

Video (with comments in English) @ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-sarkozy-found-guilty-illegally-financing-2012-election-bid-2021-09-30/

Bien cela alors!! ... Another RW crook.

Well, at least he didn't try to violently overturn an election he lost using his big lie and a 6-pt plot with help from his RW sycophants, obstruct Justice 10 times, intimidate witnesses, grab women by their genitals without their consent, et al (over 700,000 negligent homicides included!)... but he did pay a porn star to silence her as identified by the SDNY as "Individual 1" in his frauduient campaign (where are the charges, DOJ-FBI??)

[PSPS]

1. If you're rich and white, you don't "do" jail.