Nicolas Sarkozy Faces Questioning In Raft Of Investigations As Immunity Ends -- The Telegraph
Nicolas Sarkozy could face questioning in a raft of party financing and corruption cases when he leaves the Elysée next week and loses his presidential immunity.
The Right-winger, who lost his re-election bid to Socialist François Hollande on Sunday, held his last cabinet meeting on Wednesday – said to be an "emotional" affair in which he urged colleagues not to be "sad or bitter".
Telling aides he intends to retire from front line politics, Mr Sarkozy let them know he was preparing to return to his former life as a lawyer at the Paris firm he still partly owns, after taking a break with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and their baby daughter.
But the outgoing president could soon be called for questioning – either as a witness or potentially as a suspect – in several corruption cases when he loses presidential immunity a month after leaving office on May 15.
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Update: Nicolas Sarkozy, France Outgoing President, May Face Inquiries Into Funding Scandals -- Huffington Post
My Comment: In France .... to the winner goes the spoils. To the loser .... expect the investigations.
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