According to this article, French former president, Nicolas Sarcoxie
has been placed under investigation for abusing funds in a 2007 party funding case involving elderly L’Oreal heiress Lillian Bettencourt.
Under the French law he is just being accused of a crime. If found guilty Sarkozy faces a maximum
three-year jail sentence and a huge fine. Investigation being to occur after an
accountant came to the forefront, allegedly saying that a large cash withdrawal
was allocated from Sarkozy's presidential election campaign. Since then she has suffered from dementia
and under guardianship. While other cases against
him like submarines sales and spending on opinion polls have surfaced, lawyers
demand him to explain but Nicolas plans to appeal. Having fear of damaging his
political career, Sarkozy plans to reverse the situation and enlighten a
magazine company on a tip to fix the economy so it can promote his next campaign
in 2017.
The article is flawed in the
sense because it does not provide actual proof of crime Sarkozy committed. This
could be a case which rose from inequality due to sexism issues in their
workplace and the woman blamed Sarkozy of taking funds when she could have been
removing money from the campaign to become richer. Political crime are
non-conventional crimes resulted from political disturbances. It seems like everyone
wants to attack Sarkozy and make him look to take away his political order. The
media acts just like a socializing agency reporting news ineffectively during
campaign times to pose politicians as a threat to political authority because
one may disagree with his views or ideas. Political crimes could be stopped if
people stop challenging the power of governance and worrying about a title instead
join teams with another.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/nicolas-sarkozy-investigation-loreal-heiress?INTCMP=SRCH
Courtney Lyons
March 22,2013 2:53pm
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