Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be fitted with an electronic bracelet on Friday as part of a sentence handed down in the so-called wiretapping case, according to a source close to the matter.
The bracelet had not been fitted as of Friday morning, the source said. Last week, Sarkozy, 70, was summoned to the Paris court to be notified of the terms of this unprecedented sentence for a former head of state.
In December, Sarkozy was definitively sentenced to one year of house arrest with an electronic bracelet for corruption and influence peddling, after his appeal to a higher court was rejected. He has brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights, but this does not prevent the execution of the sentence.
The former Élysée Palace resident was found guilty, along with his long-time lawyer Thierry Herzog, of forming a "corruption pact" in 2014 with Gilbert Azibert, a senior magistrate at the Court of Cassation.
In exchange for inside information and attempted influence on Sarkozy’s appeal in the Bettencourt affair, Azibert was promised an honourary position in Monaco.
Since 6 January, Sarkozy has also been involved in another trial over allegations of Libyan financing for his 2007 presidential campaign.
