Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Jacques Chirac, for now, will not sit on the bench

The Paris court on Tuesday announced the postponement of the trial of former French President Jacques Chirac, after accepting the constitutional motion filed by the defense lawyer, Jean-Yves Le Borgne. The trial, presided over by Judge Dominique Pauth, has been postponed to a date "around June 20, because the arguments presented by counsel are political in nature 'serious'.

78, the former head of state, not yet appeared in person to the court. He is accused of having awarded seven government jobs to people who actually worked for his party, and in 21 cases to political friends in 1990 when he was mayor of Paris and leader of the RPR. The indictment includes two different research connected with the granting of employment, one located in Paris and another in Nanterre, near Paris.

Nanterre The component is not affected by the action of constitutionality. To septuagenarian conservative politician is the primate of being the first former president to be tried by a court in France.

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