While the Public Prosecutor's Office has requested yesterday 7 years in prison and a fine of 300.000 euros salary. Nicolas Sarkozy, for suspicions of illegal Libyan financing during his 2007 presidential campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy, who claims his innocence, wrote a long message on social networks.
The former President of the Republic declared:
"The National Financial Prosecutor's Office has persisted for 13 years in trying by every possible means to prove my guilt in the case of the alleged Libyan financing. None of the facts uncovered and highlighted by my defense during the hearing before the Criminal Court could shake this basic ideological premise.
After three months of hearings, it is established that no cash was used in my 2007 campaign (or only minimally and with no connection to Libya); it is finally recognized that the Médiapart memo was not credible and therefore could not be used; that the evidence announced by Gaddafi's clan has still not arrived, and for good reason; that the so-called diplomatic, economic, and legal counterparts have evaporated. Regardless, new intellectual constructions are being imagined by the prosecution. They are no more credible than the previous ones. We are a long way from the presumption of innocence, the need for proof, and the doubt that should benefit the accused. Fundamental principles of criminal law that have been flouted for 13 years. In the end, what remains is the falsity and violence of the accusations and the outrageousness of the sentence sought, which only aim to mask the weakness of the alleged charges.
So I will continue to fight tooth and nail for the truth, and to believe in the wisdom of the court.
Finally, I want to say emphatically that the victim of injustice is less to be pitied than the perpetrator. The former defends the truth. The latter flouts it. Before the tribunal of history, the place reserved for the latter is not the most enviable. I leave it to my accusers.
