Corruption is destroying Europe. In the European Parliament, bribes of bribes mounted by governments of despotic regimes such as the Moroccan and the Catarí are discovered, and by foreign multinationals, such as China Huawei. Part of the popular rejection of the Military Rearme Plan that the commission wants to deploy is due to the memory of bribery suspicions in multimillion -dollar purchases of Covid vaccines, never clarified; And, also that those who now ask for sacrifices from citizens were enriched being employees of the Russian company Gazprom. And if each European looks within their nation, you will find many other cases.
The conclusion that the enemies of the European Union take out is that it can be bought by bribery from politicians and officials. And the conclusion of citizens is distrust and detachment with respect to the EU and their own governments.
The French are attending since January to the trial of Nicolás Sarkozy, who was president of the Republic between 2007 and 2012 and before four times minister in central-right governments between 1993 and 2007. Prosecutors accuse him of having attended the dictator Libyan Muamar Gaddafi to ask for money.
The humiliations for Sarkozy began in December 2024, when the Court of Cassation condemned him with a final sentence to a three -year prison sentence, reduced to one of house arrest, by another case, referred to corruption and influence peddling to eliminate telephone listeners from an investigation against him. In February, an electronic bracelet was placed on an ankle to ensure that arrest. And now, after the sessions, he has had to listen to the Prosecutor’s Office to ask the magistrates to condemn him seven years in prison for the crimes of “corruption”, “cover -up of public funds”, “illegal financing of campaign” and “illicit association”.
According to the prosecutors’ account, in 2005, Sarkozy, when he was Interior Minister, and his intimate Claude Guéant and Brice Hortefeux dedicated themselves to a “frantic search” of financing to satisfy the “devouring political ambitions” of the politician. To “access the highest position” of the Republic, he made “a fake corruption pact with one of the most infamous dictators of the last thirty years.” In exchange for several dozen millions of dollars, Sarkozy, presented as “the true architect” of the treatment, committed to Gaddafi through Hortefeux and Guéant (already condemned in other judgments), to various diplomatic, economic and political counterparts. The former president despised his “duty to set an example” and “disregarded” the norms that govern French politics.
The summary, instructed during the last ten years, occupies 73 volumes, which have been summarized in an accusation brief of 557 pages. On April 8, the last day of the trial, Sarkozy’s defense will present his allegation. The suspicion of money traffic between Sarkozy and Gadafi has been constant in France, since it was revealed by Saif al-Islam, son of the dictator, in 2011. Between the two laps of the 2012 presidential elections, which François Hollande won, the newspaper Mediapart He published that in 2007 Gaddafi had delivered 50 million euros to Sarkozy. Therefore, Sarkozy’s insistence was explained that NATO intervened in the Libyan civil war against its former financier for his desire to hide the evidence of the bribery under ruins and blood.
Sarkozy’s with Gaddafi, dead in October 2011 by the rebels, was the same vile behavior of Jacques Chirac with King Hassán II of Morocco. The Moroccan not only served as a habitual host of the French in his kingdom, but also gave him on several occasions suitcases and bags full of bills to finance his campaigns and his life train. Specifically, five million euros for the 1995 presidential campaign. And no one gives a lot of money in exchange for anything. When in July 2002, Hassán’s son, Mohamed VI, sent a handful of gendarmes to occupy the Spanish islet of Perejil, Chirac, president between 1995 and 2007, defended his Moroccan pupil in the EU. José María Aznar reproached him to exercise as an ambassador of Morocco more than as president of France.
In 2011, the Paris Correctional Court sentenced Chirac to two years in prison for embezzlement of public funds for the fictional hiring of officials in the City of Paris between 1990 and 1995, although it did not fulfill the penalty. Years before, the socialist François Mitterrand, president between 1981 and 1995, employed the secret services of the State to investigate dozens of journalists who were around around the dark episodes of his private life and also to commit attacks.
At least, the French know that several of their presidents have been corrupt and that they have been tried for their crimes. In Spain, on the contrary, corruption is denied by the “synchronized opinion team” and, in addition, the corrupt have been able to infect the State and put it to defend its impunity.
From that typically Spanish impunity, Sarkozy maintenance of his status as a gentleman of the Golden toison, which was granted in 2011 King Juan Carlos, as Grand Master, granted. The statutes of the order establish the expulsion of the member that has been convicted by the courts. Will the Spanish royal house withdraw the collar of the order to Sarkozy if, in a few months, it is again convicted? What has to happen in Spain so that a politician is applied to laws?
