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PARIS: Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison "with deferred effect" while also imposing an immediate five-year ban on holding any public ...

The court's ruling came as Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy, in a case where he was on trial for allegedly accepting illegal campaign financing from the regime of Libyan leader Muammar ...

The dramatic decision to send former president Nicolas Sarkozy to prison for criminal conspiracy has laid bare France's stark political divisions, with the move cheered by the left but slammed by the ...

Shady backroom deals and high-profile corruption are what many French people associate with former President Nicolas Sarkozy, but he has now become the first modern French leader to face a prison ...

PARIS, Sept 25 - Carla Bruni, the former top model and singer-songwriter wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, stood by her man on Thursday after he was sentenced to five years in jail for ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of illicit funds from the late ...

PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a five-year prison sentence on Thursday after he was found guilty by a Paris court of criminally conspiracy in a trial ...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty on some counts in a trial related to alleged campaign funds from Libya. The Paris Criminal ...