Monday, February 8, Jerome Cahuzac has entered the arena. In the literal sense, as the configuration of the hall of Auction houses – that of an amphitheater – the way to the assistance center. The public and journalists are not, as is customary, installed behind the accused. They stare down from the slightly raised benches. They surround and oppress. Prosecuted before the Paris Criminal Court for fraud and tax evasion laundering, the former Minister Delegate for the Budget knows that France has already convicted. Not since he complained his confessions “eye to eye” on April 2, 2013, having become a “pariah”, “an outcast of the Republic”?
On Monday after- noon, Jérôme Cahuzac assumes and does not leak. The former singer of rigor is now the king of punctuality: it comes with forty five minutes ahead of the opening of the hearing, splits the press pack compacted as if waking from a bad nightmare. He did not spare journalists, back, puts his hand in the face of one of them to unseat the way. Brutal reflex of the man who, in another life, amateur boxer. Proud in a dark suit, a sham control, Jérôme Cahuzac takes his place before the judges. Then off: it seems even time dozing. An unexpected kiss from his ex-wife, Patricia, also pursued by the court for tax fraud, seems only able to get out of its torpor.
“You can call me Mrs. Cahuzac”
Assisi, looking down at the floor, right in a black suit, his hands flat on the thighs, as if she had been punished for being too wise, Patricia Cahuzac wears a smile that serves him to cover up the nervous trembling of his lips. She rises also as to meet the president of the court, “Yes, you can call me Mrs. Cahuzac,” she said. It was she, Patricia, which precipitated the fall of Jerome, lorsqu’interrogée by investigators in February 2013, she has nothing hidden money hidden from her ex-husband. She was then retracted, too late, including that it would be too caught up in the vicious circle that swallowed her husband
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on Monday, the court has not examined the relationship between poison and Jérôme Cahuzac Patricia, and n Nor has considered the merits of the case. Judges must focus first on priority issues of constitutionality (QPC) filed by the defense lawyers, according to which their clients can not be prosecuted by both the tax authorities and criminal justice. In short: Jerome and Patricia Cahuzac, which have already been subject to a tax adjustment, feel they can not be punished again in court. If the judges decided on Wednesday to convey this QPC to the Supreme Court, the trial was suspended pending a possible decision of the Constitutional Council. In early January, the same case, in matters of inheritance, was presented at the trial Wildenstein. The trial was suspended and a QPC is being examined at the Court of Cassation. The worst scenario for the financial national parquet leading the charge.
“The right to make the right”
Monday afternoon to the hearing, the deputy prosecutor has protested vigorously against possible transmission of the QPC to the Court of Cassation, which would mean a postponement of the trial, “Mr Cahuzac filed claim for acquittal. He asks you to find him not guilty. In essence, he said: While I did not follow the law, but I have since regularized my situation [...] Mr. Cahuzac was MP, member of the Finance Committee of the national Assembly, Minister of Budget. At no time did that moved prosecute people for criminal tax fraud could pose difficulties [...]. Today, because the law applies to his person, Jérôme Cahuzac just say. No, not for me It’s abnormal, “he has said
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And the floor to stress that the sanctions to the treasury are largely lower than those incurred in the criminal justice. It is therefore necessary to juggle the two procedures: “On one hand, you incur a single penalty, financial. While on the other side, you incur no fewer than eight combined penalties: imprisonment, deprivation of civic rights, assuming [infamous, Ed] a publication of the court decision, the ban operate a vehicle, confiscation of movable and immovable property, etc. [...] What a strange conception of Mr. Cahuzac to say to you that the money would be the same price that freedom! Money is not everything, money is not the same as our most precious rights and freedoms. “
Jérôme Cahuzac, who face the shame of a public trial,” and wants to be tried as quickly as possible, “immediately replied one of his lawyers, Jean-Alain Michel. Before Jean Veil, other counsel of Jerome Cahuzac, else bid: “It is not because one is treated by the press as a pariah that we would not have the right to the right. “Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, the court will tell if it passes or not the QPC to the Court of Cassation. And if the trial may or may not continue.
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