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Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
Former French prime minister François Fillon and his wife Penelope arrive at the Paris courthouse for their appeal trial against a conviction for fraud. The 2017 presidential hopeful was last year sentenced to five years in prison, three of them suspended, for orchestrating a fake job for his wife, who received a suspended three-year sentence. IMAGES
Six ans on, and in the middle of the historic trial, French Prime Minister Jean Castex, city officials and representatives of victims associations wrap up the tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris with a ceremony at the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, and presidents of victims' associations pay tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, laying a wreath by the restaurant-bars "La Belle Equipe", "Le Petit Carillon" and "Le Petit Cambodge." IMAGES
Six years on, and in the middle of the historic trial, the commemorations of the attacks of November 13, 2015 begin at the Stade de France, on the outskirts of Paris, where a first attack near the stadium left one person dead and a dozen seriously injured. IMAGES
French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti visits the courtroom where the trial of the 13 November attacks will take place. IMAGES
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