Deux gardes du corps dans une cellule voisine : Sarkozy protégé en prison en raison des "menaces qui pèsent sur lui"
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been incarcerated since Tuesday in the Parisian Santé prison, is accompanied by two security officers "given his status and the threats he faces," the Interior Minister explained on Wednesday.
The former head of state normally benefits from "a protective system in view of his status and the threats weighing on him" and "this system has indeed been maintained in detention," Laurent Nuñez indicated on the news channel Cnews and Europe 1 radio. "It is a decision aimed at ensuring his security," he added.
Two security officers were placed in the cell next to that of Nicolas Sarkozy, 70 years old.
"This is a decision aimed at ensuring his safety," added Mr. Nuñez, "in addition, of course, to everything implemented by the prison administration." This system will remain in place "as long as we deem it useful," the minister assured.
Never in the history of the French Republic or the European Union has a former head of state slept behind bars.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who has always maintained his innocence, was found guilty on September 25 of having allowed two colleagues to prepare a plan to finance his 2007 presidential campaign from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, during meetings with a regime official sentenced to life in France for the attack on the UTA DC-10 in 1989 (170 deaths).
The judges surprised everyone by issuing a warrant for his five-year prison sentence for "criminal conspiracy," without waiting for the appeal hearing, which is expected to take place before the summer. They cited the "exceptional gravity of the facts" and only granted the former head of state a period before his incarceration to allow him time to organize himself.
Mr. Sarkozy filed a request for release on Tuesday. The court has two months to consider it, but the hearing is expected to take place sooner.
He is "obviously a citizen like any other, but there are slightly more significant threats weighing on him" as a former President of the Republic, Mr. Nuñez justified, explaining that the transfer of the former president from his home in western Paris "to La Santé," in the south of Paris, "was escorted to avoid a host of motorcyclists and journalists following the procession...".
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