Nicolas Sarkozy detained for questioning over alleged corruption
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Source: The Guardian
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning as part of an inquiry into alleged abuse of power.
The unprecedented step followed the arrest of Sarkozy's lawyer and two magistrates who are under investigation for allegedly using their influence to obtain information about legal cases against him.
Detectives are trying to establish whether the former leader promised a top-level job in Monaco to a magistrate in return for letting him know whether corruption allegations against him would go to court. Sarkozy denies any wrongdoing.
The police move on Tuesday represents a blow to Sarkozy's hopes of making a political comeback in 2017. The former leader of the UMP is said to have been hoping to profit from the disarray and lack of leadership in his centre-right party, which is itself mired in legal investigations, to stand for president again.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/nicol
Finnaly, hope justice will be done as it should! The whole career of Sarkozy has been accompanied with various possible indictements: corruption, justice obstruction, harassment, abuse of weakness , and even a possible sexual scandal ( according various sources, he forced a woman member of the Assemblée Nationale to make him a fellation, while she was initialy meeting him to seek his help for finantial aid to her district)
Many french pundits are according that the whole Sarkozy system is very close in its digusting methods, to the one wich was Nixon Administration's.
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