US EditionFrench ex-president Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years in prison in Libya campaign financing case
- On September 25, 2025, a court in Paris convicted former French President Nicolas Sarkozy of criminal conspiracy connected to alleged Libyan financial support during his 2007 election campaign and sentenced him to a five-year prison term.
- The conviction arose from accusations that between 2005 and 2007 Sarkozy engaged in a scheme to secure millions of euros from Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi in exchange for diplomatic favors.
- The court cleared Sarkozy of charges including corruption and illegal campaign financing, while the judges justified his pre-emptive detention by emphasizing the significant political implications of the case.
- At 70, Sarkozy denounced the verdict as deeply unjust and announced his intention to appeal, declaring that if incarceration is imposed, he will face it with dignity and unwavering resolve.
- The ruling marks a historic first in France and intensifies political divisions while throwing the country’s political class into turmoil amid concerns about judicial precedent and political motives.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison after being convicted of unlawful association in the case of funds he would have received for his election campaign in 2007 from Muamar Gaddafi. However, the ex-mandator was acquitted of the charges of passive corruption, illegal campaign financing and cover-up of embezzlement of public funds. You may be interested: Luigi Mangione will no longer be tri…
Mayor Horizons of the city of the French Riviera chose to dedicate the court of his Police Hotel to Nicolas Sarkozy, five days after his conviction for criminal association.
Al Bawaba - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he "absolutely" does not expect a pardon after being sentenced to five years in prison in a case involving illegal Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign. He stressed that he is working to prove his "integrity," in an interview published Sunday...
Sentenced to five years in prison in the Libyan financing case, Nicolas Sarkozy poses by fighting unjustly overburdened in the columns of the "JDD". In this interview, the former president excludes any presidential pardon, denounces a "violation of the rule of law" and promises to fight "until his last breath".
Two days after his conviction in the Libyan financing case for his 2007 campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy appeared at the Parc des Princes. ...
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