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French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

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375 points begueradj | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 05:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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tsoukase ◴[22 Oct 25 12:22 UTC] No.45667963[source]▶
A former Prime Minister of a first world country in jail is insane. He must have made a crime without the help of others because in political scandals usually a whole gang of public people is liable. Then you have to convict the monkey with the bananas and the whole tree.

If we follow the French justice, in my country (Greece) about 10% of people including almost all the politicians of the last decades should be in jail.

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rsynnott ◴[22 Oct 25 17:16 UTC] No.45672210[source]▶
Chirac also got a jail sentence, though it was suspended on account of his age.

In Ireland, we prefer to just tie them up in tribunals for the rest of their lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haughey (PM til '92, under investigation from '97 to '06, at which point he died)

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1. etiennebausson ◴[22 Oct 25 20:49 UTC] No.45674961[source]▶
That's what Sarkozy was going for, he had been slowing the procedure by any means necessary for 13 years.

That's why he's so pissed he was send to prison during his appeal. He expected to slow that down too, and get to stay at home on account of his age should he lose his appeal.