Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (C) shakes hands with a French police officer as he arrives with his wife Carla Bruni (L) for the last day of his trial on charges of illegal campaign ...

Prosecutors requested a seven-year prison sentence for former president Nicolas Sarkozy, on Thursday, March 27, in his trial on charges of allegedly accepting illegal election campaign financing ...

PARIS — Prosecutors on Thursday requested that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy be sentenced to seven years in prison for allegedly accepting money from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi ...

French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year jail term for former president Nicolas Sarkozy who is accused of illegally accepting funds for his successful 2007 presidential campaign from ...

By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris French prosecutors requested a seven-year prison sentence against former President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday, in a trial over accusations that his 2007 ...

French prosecutors said that ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy should be found guilty and sent to jail for seven years over allegations his 2007 winning campaign was covertly funded by millions of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few months into Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency, Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi pitched his Bedouin-style ...

Justice Gaddafi-Sarkozy funding trial ends with defence speech claiming 'empty' prosecution case The trial of Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 others on corruption charges relating to the alleged funding of ...

PARIS - French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year jail sentence and a 300,000-euro fine for French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly taking millions of euros from late Libyan ...

The allegations can be traced back to 2011, when a Libyan news agency and Gaddafi himself said that the Libyan state had secretly funnelled millions of euros into Sarkozy's 2007 campaign.

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at his trial for illegal campaign financing, at the Paris court, on March 25, 2025. HUGO MATHY/AFP The National Financial Prosecutor's Office was merciless ...