Unprecedented
move against a former French president as investigators also question his
lawyer and two magistrates
theguardian.com,
AFP, Paris, Tuesday 1 July 2014
Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning as part of a widening corruption inquiry in an unprecedented move against a former French president.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been questioned by anti-corruption investigators. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images |
Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning as part of a widening corruption inquiry in an unprecedented move against a former French president.
Anti-corruption
investigators can hold Sarkozy for questioning for up to 24 hours, with a
possible extension of another day.
Sarkozy had
turned himself in for questioning a day after investigators detained his
lawyer, Thierry Herzog, and two magistrates.
The investigators
are seeking to establish if the former president, with the help of Herzog,
tried to pervert the course of justice.
They
suspect Sarkozy, 59, sought to obtain inside information from one of the
magistrates about the progress of another inquiry and that he was tipped off
that his mobile phone had been tapped by judges looking into the alleged
financing of his 2007 election campaign by former Libyan dictator Muammar
Gaddafi.
The case
could prove devastating for Sarkozy's hopes of a political comeback in time for
the 2017 presidential campaign.
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