From the former president to the future prisoner: Sarkozy’s condemnation is divided

Nicholas Sarkozy returned where he – controlled news and dividing the nation.

Thirteen years after he left his post, he was about to become the first former French president to be sent to prison after a five -year period of criminal conspiracy.

The conditions are full of the same sulfur dispute, which was once used to celebrate every step for him.

New from the ruling he issued in the trial of “Libyan Money” on Thursday, he spoke with a glowing anger over “unlimited hatred” that he said was still a victim.

From the moment he appeared as a hero from the right, Sarkozy was convinced that he was a target of a left -wing cap in the judiciary and the French media.

And with this sentence – he thinks – it has become unbearable evidence.

Why, he asks his supporters, has the court erased it from three of the four charges that weigh it: financing the illegal party, embezzlement of Libyan funds, and corruption?

Why did the court only lead to his conviction for the recent accusation-“the party that arrives at the” Criminal Assembly “(often delivered to the drug gang members when the investigators have nothing else to continue)?

And why – after he convicted him of a lesser charge – did the court give him a humiliating and insulting punishment? They did not send a 70 -year -old man to five years in prison, but was 20 years after the crime.

They also stipulated that the sentence was not “pending” – and in other words they said that he would go to prison even if he resumed, although in French law awaiting appeal, it is still innocent theory.

Only when you thought the old feelings for the man started to fade, suddenly they returned with revenge.

Many will feel some sympathy for Sarkozy – not necessarily that it is completely guilty of this issue of searching for the Libyan campaign funds.

But they will see some truth in his allegations of abuse: that there is already some in the Paris Political Foundation that hates the former president and rejoices in overthrowing him.

Look through another lens, and Sarkozy is not from a previous country equally difficult, but rather a very influential and influential political operator who has constantly pushed the law to its borders in order to reach its path.

Why will there such lawsuits will be against him? Why was Sarkozy already convicted of two other charges of corruption – once to try a sub -judge, and another time to finance the illegal campaign?

And if the court now decides to deliver the book on the case of Libya, it may be because the charge of trying to obtain the election funds from a foreign dictator is actually somewhat serious.

All this is suitable today because although Sarkozy is no longer the impressive number that makes it come out, the arguments on this issue are hesitant through the ruins hall that is French policy.

The right of the right and the extreme right is his case, and he cries on the excessive leftist judges. Marine Le Pen-who was granted to run for the presidency because of the “non-contract” condition in its conviction early this year-was the first to condemn “injustice.”

The left sees everything as more evidence of the franchise of wealthy men – strong more powerful by ignoring the law.

Nicholas Sarkozy has long left his position, and there is no possibility to return. He is a character from the past. But his case places divisions in a very divided country.