Jacques Chirac will be the first former president to appear in court at the trial of alleged fictitious jobs for the city of Paris will open March 7.
Former Head of State Jacques Chirac must respond before the Paris court of facts from the early 1990s, when he was mayor of the capital.
During his two terms at the Elysee Palace from 1995 to 2007, he was indeed protected from justice by his presidential immunity. His ex-Prime Minister Alain Juppe had instead been sentenced in 2004 in one of two components of the case, educated at Nanterre.
health of Jacques Chirac, 78 years seems to have deteriorated since his departure from the Elysée to the point that his wife Bernadette had recently deny that he suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
At the request of his lawyers, he was taught by the Criminal Court to attend the first day of trial, which will be devoted to procedural matters.
Unless dramatic turn of events, however it must be present and speak on Tuesday, 8. An upholstered chair is scheduled to his attention, and a room at his disposal if he wants to go to rest. His lawyers have also asked for a lectern that there can put documents.
His presence thereafter remains uncertain, as the 11th President of the Criminal Division, Dominique Pauthe, planned to question him almost every day.
The trial will last until April 4, according to the proposed schedule of hearings. It creates a strong media interest, the court has received requests from 95 media accreditation, including some foreigners.
The case of alleged fictitious job as mayor of Paris has two components : Educated at one of seven jobs Nanterre, another Paris at 21.
Accused of having used these jobs to serve his political ambitions, Jacques Chirac rejects any "organized system". It assumes the hires, who were in his eyes "legitimate" and "useful to the city of Paris."
Referred to justice for "misuse of public funds, abuse of trust" and "illegal taking of interest" in theory he could face ten years in prison and a fine of € 150 000, and five years of delisting election and ten years of ineligibility.
pressure on him, however, has considerably reduced since the city of Paris has decided not to put plaintiff, following a compensation agreement reached in September 2010 with the UMP and Jacques Chirac.
Without his main victim, the trial also promises without charge because the prosecution had requested a non-place during the procedure, and should logically seek his release.
He will return to the association the fight against corruption Anticor, whose honorary chairman is Judge Eric Halphen, who claimed damages, to bring the conflict to defend against Jacques Chirac.
his side appear nine other defendants: two former chiefs of staff, and persons accused of having held fake jobs - like François Debré, brother of the President of the Constitutional Council Jean-Louis Debre - or have benefited from employees paid by the municipality, as the former secretary general of TF Marc Blondel.
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