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Paris, Jun 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yoan Valat) The former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, returned on Tuesday to the court in Paris where it will be decided whether the re-election campaign in 2012 was financed illegally.The trial had to be postponed on March 17 after one of the lawyers fell ill with Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF THE COURT IN PARIS.
Paris, Mar 1 (EFE), (Camera: Martí Rodríguez).- Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for corruption and influence peddling, making him the first former French president to be sentenced to prison.Two of the three years were suspended, the Paris Correctional Court said. The third year will be served under house arrest.Sarkozy was found guilty of attempting to bribe magistrate Gilbert Azibert, in exchange for information relating to a criminal investigation into the former president’s party.Sarkozy’s lawyer, Thierry Herzog, and Azibert were also found guilty and received the same sentence.FOOTAGE OF NICOLAS SARKOZY AT THE COURT IN PARIS.
Paris, Sep 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Mohammed Badra) Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was given a one-year prison sentence Thursday after he was found guilty of illegally financing his 2012 presidential election campaign.The court found that the former French head of state, who was in office between 2007 and 2012, benefitted from a double-accounting system put in place in order to exceed spending limits imposed by French law.FOOTAGE OF THE COURT IN PARIS.
Paris, May 20 (EFE) .- (Camera: Martí Rodríguez) Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was absent this Thursday on the first day of the new trial he faces in Paris after his conviction in March, in this case for irregular financing from his 2012 election campaign, in which he was defeated by François Hollande.FOOTAGE OF THE LAWYERS COMING TO THE SECOND TRIAL AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT OF FRANCE NICOLAS SARKOZY IN THE COURT OF PARIS (FRANCE).
Nicolas Sarkozy, his former lawyer Thierry Herzog and former senior magistrate Gilbert Azibert leave court after the National Financial Prosecutor's Office issued an indictment asking for four years in prison, two of them suspended, for the three accused in the so-called "wiretapping" case. (COMPLETES VIDEOS VIDI8WQ2ZY_EN, VIDI8WP6TK_EN, VIDI8WQ3EV_EN) IMAGES
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
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