Libyan trial: Nicolas Sarkozy’s defense castigates a “grotesque novel”

“To enter into a Faustian pact in the hands of Gaddafi while we are at the gates of the Élysée, you would have to be crazy!” The four lawyers of Nicolas Sarkozy, including M^e Sébastien Schapira, pleaded on Wednesday for pure and simple acquittal on the last day of the so-called “Libyan financing” appeal trial of his 2007 presidential campaign. A whole day to respond to the harsh attacks of the general prosecutor’s office, which demanded as in first instance 7 years in prison against the former head of state.

The essentials had been said in the morning by M^es Christophe Ingrain et Tristan Gautier. “We are trying to involve Nicolas Sarkozy in a grotesque novel, not to do justice but so that you condemn him.”begins first in the furnace of the courtroom. He takes up, without forgetting a single one, each of the chapters of the catechism of the defense of the accused, with obvious conviction, some inspired passages, others less so. “I didn’t hear…