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Daily Stormer
July 3, 2014
Ex-President of France, Devil-faced Jew Nicolas Sarkozy has been arrested and placed under formal investigation for corruption.
BBC:
Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation over alleged influence peddling.
He appeared before a judge in Paris late on Tuesday after 15 hours of questioning by anti-corruption police.
This is thought to be the first time a former French head of state has been held in police custody.
Mr Sarkozy’s lawyer, Thierry Herzog, and senior prosecutor Gilbert Azibert were also placed under formal investigation over the allegations.
There was no word on the questioning of a second prosecutor, Patrick Sassoust, who had also been in custody.
The allegation against Mr Sarkozy is that he sought insider information from a judge regarding an investigation into illegal campaign financing.
Mr Sarkozy denies any wrongdoing and is due to be interviewed live on French TV on Wednesday evening.
He has received support from several high-ranking party colleagues. Former PM Alain Juppe wrote on his Twitter feed: “I’m thinking in friendship of Nicolas Sarkozy: he is of course presumed innocent.”
President Francois Hollande also stressed the presumption of innocence, his spokesman said.
Taking in the “shock wave”, Le Figaro, the newspaper of choice for many French conservatives, asks if Nicolas Sarkozy is not being singled out for political reasons. Yves Threard suggests that French judges are seeking revenge for criticisms he made of the justice system while in office, when he famously described magistrates as indistinguishable “little peas”.
Writing in the centre-left daily Liberation, Eric Decouty argues that Mr Sarkozy must take responsibility for his actions if he wishes to return to politics. “Even if the former head of state has never made morality his chief virtue, he cannot scorn certain values essential to our democracy,” he says.
The French justice system may now be doing the “dirty work” of Mr Sarkozy’s own party, Patrice Chabanet suggests in an editorial for regional daily Le Journal de la Haute-Marne. Other figures in the party like former prime ministers Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe “want to turn the page of Sarkozyism”, he argues. Even if Mr Sarkozy emerges from his legal troubles exonerated of blame, the cost to his political career may be too great, he suggests.
