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The case concerns the financing of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 © Eric FEFERBERG / AFP Claude Guéant, December 5, 2018 in Paris.

Key points Nicolas Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of corruption and influence peddling Mr Sarkozy denies any wrongdoing and says he is in a "combative" mood ahead of the trial Mr Sarkozy is accused of trying to illegally obtain information from a magistrate about an

Investigators discovered that Sarkozy used an alias - Paul Bismuth - to buy a 'All this is nothing more than sentence fragments taken out of context,' Herzog's lawyer Paul -Albert Iweins told France Herzog faces the same charges as Sarkozy , and a further allegation of violating professional secrecy.

© Agence / Panoramic / Bestimage Nicolas Sarkozy facing justice: where does the code name Paul Bismuth come from? As the trial for corruption and influence peddling opened on Monday, November 23, in which Nicolas Sarkozy is on the bench, a name, that of Paul Bismuth, is at the heart of the debates. But where does this code name come from that the former president and his lawyer allegedly used to communicate?

It is called the eavesdropping affair, but it is mainly centered on a code name, that of Paul Bismuth . This name is the one that is today at the heart of the trial which opened on Monday, November 23, before the 32nd chamber of the Paris judicial court, and in which Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer Thierry Herzog and the former high magistrate Gilbert Azibert are singled out. Tapped in the case of alleged Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy would have communicated with his lawyer through two lines powered by prepaid chips, in the name of Paul Bismuth . A surname which is far from having been chosen at random, since Paul Bismuth was a class friend of the former president's lawyer. The Parisian reminds him, this name would have come to memory to Thierry Herzog when he received an email from the Trombi.com site, which is used to find his former classmates.

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Nicolas Sarkozy , the former French president, will appear in court on Monday accused of influence peddling and corruption in an historic trial. They soon discovered he was using another, secret mobile phone under the false name of Paul Bismuth to communicate with his lawyer.

Investigators discovered that Sarkozy used an alias -- Paul Bismuth -- to buy a private phone for conversing secretly with his lawyer. Prosecutors say Azibert, who is also on trial, was tasked with obtaining information from the court lawyer in charge of the Bettencourt inquiry, and to induce him to

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If the accused defend themselves from having used corruption and influence peddling, Thierry Herzog explained that the lines were acquired to escape savage eavesdropping.

"I just want someone to leave me alone"

While waiting for the judgment of the husband of Carla Bruni , the real Paul Bismuth, meanwhile, would have liked never to be involved in this affair. "It annoys me terribly to see my name overused and propagated. I do not expect anything from the coming trial. I don't care, I just want to be left alone", explained to Point the trader and real estate developer in Israel, which decided to become a civil party in the lawsuit.