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Judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez, who investigated part of the Bettencourt case, claims that a witness saw Nicolas Sarkozy being given cash at the billionaire's before his election in 2007, according to excerpts from a book published on Wednesday by Liberation and L'Express.
Questioned Wednesday morning by AFP, the Elysée replied that these accusations were "unfounded, false and scandalous".
In "Sarko killed me" (Stock), a book by Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme to be published on Thursday, the magistrate of Nanterre, now divested, says she was "struck" by "the fear (of witnesses) of speaking on PV (minutes) about Nicolas Sarkozy", according to extracts quoted by the weekly L'Express.
"One of them told me that he had seen cash transfers to Sarko", continues the magistrate in this book, according to passages also mentioned by the daily Liberation. And she specifies: "Liliane Bettencourt's nurse confided to my clerk, after her hearing by me: + I saw cash transfers to Sarkozy, but I could not say it on the minutes +".
Contacted by AFP, the magistrate could not be reached on Wednesday morning.
The president of the 15e chamber of the Nanterre criminal court was for a time seized of a direct quote from Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers who accused the photographer and writer François-Marie Banier of having abused his mother's weakness.
On this occasion, the magistrate had opened additional information allowing her, among other things, to carry out witness hearings. However, this part of the case as well as all the preliminary investigations carried out by the Nanterre prosecutor Philippe Courroye had been moved to Bordeaux in the fall of 2010.
According to the magistrate, "this trial represented a major risk for the Elysée, there was a 90% chance that it would be deflagratory. I had to be released, by all means. It was imperative to disembark me".
Asked by Liberation, the judge refused to make any declaration but, writes the daily while referring to "her entourage", "she absolutely assumes her words" and "does not withdraw anything" from what she said to the authors of the book "Sarko killed me".
Asked Wednesday about France 2, government spokeswoman Valérie Pécresse said that "when we have accusations to make, we don't make them in a book or in the press, we take them to court", judging " the method used (...) for the less particular".
The secretary general of the UMP, Jean-François Copé, for his part noted on Canal + that "we are a few months away from the presidential election" and estimated that "we must not be fooled by anything" .
source: The New Obs
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