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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.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in a Paris court as his appeal hearing opens against a conviction for illegal campaign financing in a failed 2012 re-election bid. IMAGES
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer, Thierry Herzog, and former deputy director of the 2012 presidential campaign, Jérôme Lavrilleux, arrive at the Paris correctional court for the opening of the 'Bygmalion' trial, in which the former French President faces accusations of "illegal financing of an election campaign." If convicted, Sarkozy is liable to one year's imprisonment and a 3,750 euro fine. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves Paris courtroom at the end of his appeal trial in the Bygmalion case. The public prosecutor has requested a one-year suspended prison sentence against the conservative politician, who was sentenced at first instance to one year in prison. The ruling has been set for 14 February. 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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