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Added on the 17/09/2013 14:31:39 - Copyright : France 24 FR
France's right-wing presidential candidate François Fillon met with former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday amid ongoing investigations into claims he misused public funds and employed his wife as a parliamentary aide. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Palais de Justice in Paris as the Court of Appeal is due to rule on the fate of the former French president, his long-serving lawyer and a former high-ranking magistrate in the so-called "wiretapping" case. 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
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy, summoned as a witness in the Elysée polls trial, leaves the Paris correctional court after less than an hour on the stand, where he refused to answer questions citing his presidential immunity. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the correctional court in Paris to testify in the trial of his former colleagues in the Elysée polling fraud trial, a case in which he is not being prosecuted because he is covered by his presidential immunity. Five aides and allies of the former president of France are accused of having misused public money and cronyism. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy's former secretary general Claude Guéant and his former advisors Patrick Buisson and Pierre Giacometti arrive in court for the trial in the so-called Elysee polls affair, in which they're suspected of having commissioned numerous opinion polls without respecting public procurement rules during Sarkozy's presidency. IMAGES