The dissection of the wiretaps at the Sarkozy trial is becoming absurd

These wiretaps are soft evidence that take the form we want to give because there is no other evidence to link them. Since December 5, the Paris Court of Appeal has been busy explaining twenty conversations intercepted from January to March 2014 in the context of the so-called “Paul Bismuth” case.

The whole file is based on these excerpts isolated from their context, which are massive, but they represent only a drop of water in the verbal ocean of the exchange between Nicolas Sarkozy and Mrs Ocean.^e Thierry Herzog. The famous secret line opened by the latter in the name of a misguided college friend was not only intended to organize an alleged operation of corruption and influence with the help of Magistrate Gilbert Azibert; this topic accounts for approximately one-eighth of the total volume. One conversation (1:^eh February 2014, 2 minutes 15 seconds) reproduced in its entirety, which does not contain…