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Lawyer: Chirac will not appeal verdict
Dec 15, 2011, 18:48 GMT
Paris - Former French president Jacques Chirac will not appeal his conviction for corruption, nor his two-year suspended sentence, his lawyer Jean Veil said Thursday.
Veil told BFM television that, while Chirac's conviction for misuse of public funds and abuse of trust over a municipal jobs scandal dating to the early 1990s 'deeply hurts him,' the former president did not have the energy to appeal.
BFM quoted a statement from Chirac in which he reaffirmed his innocence and 'categorically' rejected the verdict, but confirmed he would not fight it.
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