2023-05-23 21:07:13
Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on May 17 on appeal in Paris to three years in prison, including one year to be executed under an electronic bracelet, for “corruption” and “influence peddling” in the wiretapping affair. His lawyer immediately announced that she was going to file an appeal in cassation. The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence pronounced at first instance, on March 1, 2021, once morest the former President of the Republic, now 68 years old.
Ironically, on the same day, Riad Salamé, governor of the Banque du Liban, was formally questioned regarding his European heritage, and the French investigating judge in charge of the investigation issued an international arrest warrant on Tuesday. aiming following his refusal to appear for questioning in Paris. Here, one wonders why our governor who proclaims himself innocent does not prove it and bows to international justice or at least accepts this electronic bracelet like Sarkozy who is a former President of the Republic.
The answer might turn out to be simple. If Mr. Salamé accepts this bracelet gift, how many orders for placement under electronic bracelets will be sent to other Lebanese officials, presidential candidates, ex-ministers, ministers, deputies or former deputies and especially certain directors of Lebanese banks, who have done and continue to cause harm to all the Lebanese people by blocking their money in cold blood, and to top it off, with a firm resolution not to reimburse anything and also to open new banks to forget the past.
Isn’t it time, with all this laxity concerning a large part of our judges, to change this mentality where the leader of each confessional tribe is untouchable, as well as his supporters, and that in the name of the blackmail of arms, we can become judge and arbiter when it is up to the long-awaited President of the Republic to be the arbiter, and honest judges armed with faith to be the only defenders of the law?
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Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on May 17 on appeal in Paris to three years in prison, including one year to be executed under an electronic bracelet, for “corruption” and “influence peddling” in the wiretapping affair. His lawyer immediately announced that she was going to file an appeal in cassation. The Paris Court of Appeal upheld the sentence handed down in…
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