France's highest court upheld Sarkozy's conviction for corruption and influence peddling. The former President faces a year in prison but is expected to serve it under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.
Sarkozy , 69, faces a year in prison, but is expected to ask to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet — as is the case for any sentence of two years or less.December 19, 2024In this Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Sarkozy, who was France's president from 2007 to 2012, retired from public life in 2017 though still plays an influential role in French conservative politics. He was among the guests who attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral earlier this month. Sarkozy said he will seek to bring the case to the European Court of Human Rights, and hopes those proceedings will result in"France being condemned.""My determination is total in this case as in all others," he concluded.
Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was found guilty in 2011 of misuse of public money during his time as Paris mayor and was given a two-year suspended prison sentence.Sarkozy has been involved in several other legal cases. He has denied any wrongdoing.
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