(ANSA) – PARIS, DEC 13 – For the first time a former French Minister of the Interior ended up in prison: it is Claude Guéant, 76, formerly the right hand of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who ended up in jail today for not having complied with the obligations arising from a 2017 conviction.
Guéant, according to what was announced by the prosecutor in a statement, “presented himself today at the service of the execution of sentences and was taken to prison in the Parisian penitentiary of Santé”.
The former head of the Interior was sentenced in January 2017 to 2 years in prison, one of which with a suspended sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros in a case of cash bonuses of the ministry he had directed. He was serving his sentence out of prison, on probation but, at the beginning of November, the Court of Appeal had revoked part of the probation period (6 months), believing that Guéant was not up to date with the payment of the fine imposed. In execution of this decision, Guéant was imprisoned, a sentence that will last 9 months, even though his lawyer has asked for the intervention of the judge of liberties.
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