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Libya Trial: Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy Receives 5-Year Sentence

Rogers BillSep 25, 2025September 25, 20250

(PARIS – Sept 25) In a stunning legal development reverberating through France and the international political community, Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France from 2007 to

Nicolas Sarkozy in police custody over campaign funding

YoopyaMar 20, 2018June 4, 20230

Ex-French president faces claims his 2007 election bid benefited from illicit Libyan funds. The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody

François Hollande holds emergency meeting after WikiLeaks claims US spied on three French presidents

YoopyaJun 24, 2015July 2, 20230

NSA documents appear to show that American agents spied on Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hollande, even listening to their phone calls. The French president,

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy rebrands UMP party as “Les Republicains”

YoopyaJun 1, 2015July 8, 20230

Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to get his centre-right UMP party a facelift by rebranding it ‘Les Republicains’ two years before the French presidential elections. The

IMF chief Lagarde under investigation in France

YoopyaAug 27, 2014June 15, 20230

PARIS (AP) — Christine Lagarde, the chief of the International Monetary Fund, was put under official investigation for negligence in a French corruption probe that

Europe: French ex-president Sarkozy held for questioning: legal source

YoopyaJul 1, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held on Tuesday for questioning into suspicions that a network of informers kept him abreast of a

Nicolas Sarkozy to be investigated in Bettencourt scandal

YoopyaMar 22, 20130

French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation over claims his 2007 election campaign received illegal donations from France’s richest woman. Mr Sarkozy

Analysis: France’s Hollande plays president, Sarkozy insurgent

YoopyaApr 28, 20120

(Reuters) – To watch them perform, you would think Francois Hollande was already France’s president and Nicolas Sarkozy was an insurgent frantically battling to dislodge

France’s Sarkozy rows back on nuclear help for Libya

YoopyaApr 19, 2012December 25, 20220

French President Nicolas Sarkozy backpedalled from a denial and acknowledged on Wednesday that he had discussions with Muammar Gaddafi about selling a nuclear reactor to

Analysis: Sarkozy, Hollande snipe at EU to woo voters

YoopyaMar 23, 20120

(Reuters) – To a visitor from Mars, France’s presidential election must seem a bizarre contest between candidates waging largely artificial battles with Europe before an