His first interview after his historical trial and sentenced to 5 years in prison was given by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who will be published tomorrow, Sunday.

Speaking to the Journal du Dimanche – when asked if he was expecting a grace by President Emmanuel Macron, Sarkozy replied: “By no means.”

“To get grace, you have to accept your sentence and therefore admit your guilt. I will never admit my guilt for something I didn’t do. I will fight until my last breath to recognize my honesty, “the former French president said, ending up with an emphatic” I will win “.

The awarding grace only applies to a final and enforceable decision and therefore is not possible at present, as Sarkozy has appealed against the court ruling.

The case for illegal funding of Sarkozy’s election campaign from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafiwho has been working for years in French political and social life, ended Thursday with the Paris Criminal Court to judge the former president for a criminal conspiracy from 2005 to 2007 and sentenced him to five years in prison.

He was also fined 100,000 euros, a five -year ban on his political rights, as well as a five -year deprivation of his right to be elected. The court, however, acquitted him with other charges of corruption such as the embezzlement of Libyan capital, passive bribery and the illegal funding of the election campaign.

In this long interview, he quoted the court’s chairman’s words about the document published by the Mediapart news website in 2012 and which launched the legal procedure – a note written in Arabic on an agreement to support the Presidential Campaign. According to the judge, “the most likely scenario is that this document is fake.”

“If there is forgery, it means that there were counterfeiters, people who manipulate and therefore a conspiracy,” Sarkozy said. “In a normal world, the whole indictment should have collapsed. But the court did just the opposite, “he continued.

Asked about the court ruling, with a prison sentence immediately enforceable – without suspension of the decision – the former President said he was expecting “anything but not that”. “All the limits of the rule of law have been violated,” he said.

According to a source close to the case, Sarkozy was summoned to court on October 13 to determine his imprisonment date. A judicial source told the French Agency that the former head of state (2007-2012) would be imprisoned “relatively soon” after his call.