Paris (AFP) – Claude Gueant has collected the highest responsibilities, but the image of great servant of the state of the former right hand of Nicolas Sarkozy is now tainted by cases in which his name appears.
He who once ruled all fonts in France finds himself on the other side of the fence: the former interior minister was set Saturday consideration including tax fraud band laundering organized in the case of Flemish paintings he says he sold to explain a transfer of € 500,000 in his account. The investigation was triggered after Libyan finance charges of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.
Claude Gueant, the indictment came after police custody 30 hours after the third those experienced in December 2013 as the investigation of the premiums paid in cash instead Beauvau, and in May 2014 the Arbitration enjoyed by Bernard Tapie.
He became a lawyer after the electoral defeat of his boss This énarque 70 years long feared by ministers he did not hesitate to rebuke – “humiliating” say some – the secretary general of the Elysee between 2007 and 2011, the year of his appointment Beauvau was for more than 3 years almost the “lining” of President Sarkozy, who gave him confidence.
The press then nicknamed the “cardinal”, the “vice president” or “Premier bis” . In early July 2007, Mr Gueant goes to pay great interview to a business daily the same day or François Fillon is preparing to deliver his policy speech.
The man of the shadows and firm appears in full light in the episode of the Bulgarian nurses in Libya it will look with Cecilia, the ex-wife of Mr. Sarkozy, although he is careful to give him credit for the operation. He travels a lot for Nicolas Sarkozy, including the Middle East and Africa, where the red carpet is always place for him
-. ‘Fascinated by the thugs’ –
To attract potential voters of the National Front to his mentor, minister mastered verb triggered a controversy a few weeks before the first round of 2012, ensuring that “all civilizations are not equal.”
But his name is now involved in several cases. After struggling in the media to explain, sometimes making a few gaffes, Mr Gueant decided to stop talking to reporters and to reserve his explanations “to justice.”
A few months ago, he told AFP prepare a book he had written “several chapters.” There had to deliver some truth, telling the press about “a lot of nonsense.”
Behind an austere physical, softened by delicate gold-rimmed glasses, Mr. Gueant, always affable and very quiet – he appeared publicly very moved on one occasion, the day of his arrival at the Ministry of the Interior – may confuse
“Gueant, the cop seriously fascinated by thugs”. says a senior official familiar arcane politics.
Since 2012, Mr. Gueant continued its activities, which have included conducting in Africa. His presence in Bangui late June 2013 annoyed in high places. “But what he went to do there?” Someone asked them.
Mr. Gueant is a widower with two children and several grandchildren. He had failed to get elected deputy of Hauts-de-Seine in June 2012.
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