The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will no longer wear the electronic bracelet after the court granted his request to conditional release following his latest conviction for receiving illicit financing to the election campaign, according to what a source close to the case reported.
The Court of CassationFrance’s highest court, confirmed his sentence in November six months’ imprisonmentto be discounted to house arrest with electronic bracelet, in the so-called caso Bygmalionrelating to the financing of his presidential campaign of 2012.
The attempt to accumulate sentences
The president, in office since 2007 al 2012had initially attempted to combine this sentence with a previous one, already served, which had forced him to wear a electronic bracelet between February and May 2025 in the so-called case of telephone interceptionsbut the courts had rejected his request in March.
The decision of the Paris court
However, a judge of Paris court which oversees the execution of sentences yesterday accepted his request to conditional releasemainly because of his ageas reported by the source, confirming news released by RTL radio. The singer’s husband Carla Bruni he accomplished 71 years old in January and, despite these two convictions, his problems with the justice they are not finished yet.
Other legal proceedings
It is currently in appeal for the alleged illicit financing of his election campaign 2007. In September, he was sentenced to five years in prison for allowing collaborators to go to the Libya Of Muammar Gaddafidied in 2011to obtain funds intended to illegally finance the campaign that brought him to power.
Detention at La Santé
Although Sarkozy could appeal the sentence, the court ordered it to beimmediate execution and he spent 20 days in the prison of Health a Paris between October and November, before obtaining the conditional release.