The complicated world of French politics is at the center of attention at this time because former President Nicolas Sarkozy is being judged by allegedly accepting the illegal campaign financing of the deceased Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
Together with another twelve suspects, including former closed assistants, Sarkozy (in the photo) has been accused of designing a pact with Gaddafi to finance his 2007 winning presidential campaign. However, This is not Sarkozy’s First Rodeo With the French Law Courts, and If you look at the list of prior prior Have Also Foul of the Law, It Sems The French, EnsitE Love Or Rules Wwerwwer, Whene Just Just Just Just Just Just As Just as Just as Just as Just as Just as Just as Just as Just as Just as Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As Just As His heads.
Fortunately, it seems that another feature of the French is a love for justice, which has meant that even the heads of state are not above being investigated and processed by the French justice system. So, to calm our human need to see the powerful fall, here is a summary of some of the greatest scandals to reach French politics in the last fifty years and how the French system (and the French newspapers) brought to light the scandals.
Valéry Giscard d’Esting – President of France 1974 – 1981
Giscard d’Esting was involved in a scandal called “l’Affaire des diamants” (the issue of diamonds) that occurred when he was the French finance minister. According to the reports of the newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné, two diamonds of the President of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa was supposedly sacrificed.
Giscard d’Estoing refuted the accusations, saying that he had sold the diamonds and donated the ends to the Red Cross of Central Africa. However, the head of the local Red Cross Society (who later lost his work) publicly denied the claims of the French president and the entire saga created a stain in his presidency that finally led him to lose his 1981 commitment to re -election.
Jacques Chirac – President of France 1995 – 2007
In 2011, Chirac was convicted and condemned by Sbezzlocuts and breach of confidence in relation to 21 false jobs and a charge of illegal interest conflict with respect to seven jobs. The charges date back to time as mayor of Paris.
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He also declared himself to seven others, including Jean de Gaulle, grandson of former French president Charles de Gaulle, who obtained a suspended mandate of three months and the former Foreign Minister of France, Alain Juppe, received a sentence of 14 months.
François Mitterrand – President of France 1981 – 1995
From 1982 to 1986, François Mitterrand established an anti -terrorism unit that involved Wirtapping, an unusual movement while overlooking police and judicial channels. One of the scandals called the “Irish of Vincennes” involved members of the unit accused of planting weapons and explosives in an apartment of Vincennes that belongs to three nationals who arrested for terrorism positions. More worrying, it seemed that unity, under illegal presidential orders, obtained telephone listeners in many others, including journalists and politicians who may have threatened to reveal elements of his private life (including the fact that he had an illegitimate daughter with his lover Anne Pingoot, and his part in the Vichy Delego Deling The War regime).
After more than 20 years of legal disputes, the issue finally court in 2005, where it was revealed that Mitterrand was the main instigator of the unit, where more than 3000 wires obeyed illegally were carried out. Seven members of the president’s anti -terrorism unit were convicted and Mitterrand was appointed as the “inspiring and essentially the operation of the operation.”
As a note to the foot of the private life that he wanted to keep a secret, his wife Danielle allowed Mitterand’s lover and the 20 -year -old illegitimate daughter, Mazarine, to attend her funeral when she died of Kepper during the whole who also had the inheritance that he also had also him too.
Nicolas Sarkozy – President of France 2007 – 2012
Sarkozy previously was in court in 2021 for the Bygmalion scandal, which accused Sarkozy of diverting from his campaign funds that were spent on luxurious events that later proved hiring a public relations company. Sarkozy was convicted of violating the France Financing Expenditure Limit Law (he spent at least 42.8 million euros in his second -round presidential campaign, almost double the legal limit) and received a one -year electronic campaign.
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François Fillon – Prime Minister of France 2007 – 2012
In 2020, former French prime minister François Fillon and his wife received prison sentences for corruption, including the improper use of public funds, EMS sterlements, aggravated fraud, falsification and falsification of records.
The politician, who was the presidential candidate in 2017, but was forced when the accusations came to light, was convicted of paying his wife Penelope € 1,156 million for work that he never carried out as a parliamentary assistant.
After an appeal, Fillon’s prison sentence was cut for four years with three years suspended and his wife received a two -year suspended prison sentence with fines or € 375000 for each of them.
François Hollande – President of France 2012 – 2017
Nicknamed Flamby for his detractors for his flaccid appearance (the brand of a French crème caramel dessert) Hollande seems to have kept his nose clean in terms of criminal sentences and corruption, however, he reached the hot water when in 2014 he was photographed using the secret service to help his sex appointments with actress Julie Gayet, 20 years in his third year. This included a night trip late at night at the back of a cyclomotor driven by an employee of the secret service that would later deliver the breakfast croissants.
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Althegh Hollande later to marry Gayet in 2022, Heyd did not detach without spots after Trierweiler launched a memory called “Thank you for this moment” that came into details Salaces about his affair and Tea Eagle Degedegtite Hollande was alleged that he had retained the Snobhes opinions with respect to the poor who dentted their popularity. Unusually he did not run for a second term and was replaced when the centrist Emmanuel Macron was voted in the 2017 elections.
So there you have it … No one seems to escape from the scrutiny of the French courts or the press forever, and if you are interested in more political and commercial news in France and Europe, take a look at our blog articles, you will find a lot of you.
