Jacques Chirac, president of the French Republic, will ultimately be judged on 7 March by a corruption scandal that haunts him for years. His lawyers had sought a delay in the trial based on a procedural question. The Paris criminal court has rejected the demand. From 1992 to 1995, Chirac, then mayor of Paris, created on account of their spending as mayor, 21 jobs for alleged collaborators were in fact members, assistants or associates of his party.
According to some French political analysts, the real Chirac's lawyers seeking to gain time and delay the hearing the months enough to match the pre-election campaign of 2012, so that is less media coverage. At bottom, this trial has been delayed and long: Chirac was not processed in time because, from 1995 to 2007, having served as President of the Republic, was graduated.
This is not the only controversial or intriguing question surrounding the process: Le Journal du Dimanche asked yesterday at his home if the health of the president, 78, would allow him to attend the trial. He added that left some evidence suggests that Chirac suffers memory loss. In one of these was claimed that Chirac, to evoke François Fillon, the current prime minister, had asked: "And Fillon what you do now?".
Bernadette Chirac, wife of former president, has come out in defense of her husband and has said in a radio interview that her husband will attend his trial and did not have Alzheimer's: "The doctors have said they do not. Has trouble walking and hearing. And sometimes suffers from memory failure.
But he has Alzheimer's. If it did, I would say. "
According to some French political analysts, the real Chirac's lawyers seeking to gain time and delay the hearing the months enough to match the pre-election campaign of 2012, so that is less media coverage. At bottom, this trial has been delayed and long: Chirac was not processed in time because, from 1995 to 2007, having served as President of the Republic, was graduated.
This is not the only controversial or intriguing question surrounding the process: Le Journal du Dimanche asked yesterday at his home if the health of the president, 78, would allow him to attend the trial. He added that left some evidence suggests that Chirac suffers memory loss. In one of these was claimed that Chirac, to evoke François Fillon, the current prime minister, had asked: "And Fillon what you do now?".
Bernadette Chirac, wife of former president, has come out in defense of her husband and has said in a radio interview that her husband will attend his trial and did not have Alzheimer's: "The doctors have said they do not. Has trouble walking and hearing. And sometimes suffers from memory failure.
But he has Alzheimer's. If it did, I would say. "
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