Hallelujah!
Former French president Jacques Chirac has been given a 2 year-prison sentence (both suspended) for mistaking Paris' City Hall money for his party's.
That was a loooong time ago.
He ran for presidency in 2002 to prevent judges from nosing around him.
Hallelujah!
He'll not go to jail, fond hearts, he'll stay by the Seine, in a big house lent to him by some rich foreign prince.
He won't object to the sentence. That's great.
He's had a lucky life, dodging all that flew back to him for so long (he had a bunch of hoodlums for political friends, that man).
The prime minister said that justice had prevailed, and quickly added that it was a bit sad though, to see how slow it had been, and you could sense that he felt that justice could have shut its mouth, as his party had done so much (for the country) to keep it silent since... 1997?
A great day.
He didn't order the army to murder the people, mind, yet it's good to see the powerful, when guilty, being treated the way they should.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HWcxAcOpVY
I could cry.