Nicolas Sarkozy became today the first former president in the history of France to be fitted with an electronic tracking bracelet after being sentenced to wear it in the so-called wiretapping case, reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
Sarkozy was summoned by a judge to a Paris court on January 28 to determine the terms of this measure. After the summons, the judge set February 7 as the date on which the execution of the court decision should begin, a source close to the case announced today.
The bracelet was fitted to the former president's ankle this morning in the early afternoon at his home, the Paris prosecutor's office announced. Sarkozy will now only be able to leave his home at certain times.
“I have nothing to comment“, Jacqueline Lafon, a lawyer for Nicolas Sarkozy, told AFP. Sarkozy's entourage also declined to comment.
The measure was imposed after Nicolas Sarkozy's appeal to France's Supreme Court in the so-called wiretapping case was rejected on December 18, making his one-year prison sentence with electronic monitoring for corruption and influence peddling final.