Former French President Sarkozy begins a 5-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy
Former French President Sarkozy begins a 5-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy
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Former French President Sarkozy begins a 5-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya — a historic moment that makes him the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned.
In the US he'd be elected as a dictator instead. Bad luck being born in France.
Alas, the same forces are at play in France too, they're just meeting a less favorable pre-existing terrain. But the billionaire-owned media have been carpet bombing the country with the message that holding the executive accountable is dictatorship, and Sarkozy is innocent and basically a saint, and this is all a conspiracy by the far-left judiciary, etc
And most people don't know better because knowing better takes exhausting amounts of paying attention, and little by little, the messaging is working.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans ally themselves with Le Pen's National Rally and sweep an RN candidate into the presidency and then they pardon Sarkozy. It seems to be the way of things.
That's really discouraging to read... France has had me thinking it was far closer to a utopia than most countries. I guess I shouldn't ever get my hopes up.
I am the downvote.
Can we for once not talk about the US?
You are even from the EU, what the fuck.
If there is something I don't miss from Reddit is circlejerking.
Upvoted because I was always curious where that one downvote comes from.