PARIS (Reuters) -France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, his latest legal setback after recently being jailed for nearly a month in another case. Sarkozy, 70, was convicted in 2021 and again in 2024 for illegal campaign financing related to the […]
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France’s highest court upholds Sarkozy’s conviction in 2012 campaign financing case
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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, his latest legal setback after recently being jailed for nearly a month in another case.
Sarkozy, 70, was convicted in 2021 and again in 2024 for illegal campaign financing related to the election.
Following an appeal, the Cour de Cassation on Wednesday confirmed the convictions, saying that illegal campaign financing had been established.
The court upheld Sarkozy’s one-year non-custodial sentence, half of which is suspended.
In a statement, Sarkozy’s lawyers said their client was considering bringing the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
(Reporting by Juliette Jabkhiro; Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten and Conor Humphries)