Fifteen-month suspended prison sentence was needed on Monday to the court of appeal in Paris against Dominique de Villepin, who was suspected of "complicity in slanderous denunciation" in the Clearstream affair, against the 18-month suspended sentence and 45,000 euro fine required at trial.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General's Office has requested thirty months' imprisonment, of which 18 were suspended, against former vice-chairman of EADS, Jean-Louis Gergorin, a year closes.
The mathematician Imad Lahoud has seen cons require him thirty months in prison with 15 months suspended.
The Advocate General Jean-Louis Perol has also requested a fine of 45,000 euros against MM.Gergorin and Lahoud.
At trial, the prosecutor of Paris Jean-Claude Marin was itself mounted at the hearing to take up the case Villepin.He was required against him 18 months suspended sentence and 45,000 euro fine.
Meanwhile, he required two years in prison, 18 months firm against Imad Lahoud and three years in prison, 18 months firm, against Jean-Louis Gergorin and 45,000 euros fine against the two men.
On January 28, 2010, Dominique de Villepin had been acquitted, while Jean-Louis Gergorin and Imad Lahoud were sentenced respectively to 15 and 18 months in prison, for each matched to a fine of 40,000 euros.
The Clearstream affair is a huge case of false accusation in which names, including that of Nicolas Sarkozy, were added to listings bank to pretend they dipped in dark corruption.
For the general prosecutor, Dominique de Villepin was aware of the falsity of listings in July 2004 and thus could stop the slander. The Crown has appealed the acquittal of former Prime Minister believes it should be condemned for "complicity by failure."
But if the "complicity in slanderous denunciation" does exist in the penal code, the "complicity by failure" is a legal concept that the appellate court is free to follow or not.
