A lower court in 2021 found Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge after leaving office, and of peddling influence in exchange for confidential information about an investigation into his 2007 campaign finances.

France's Sarkozy loses corruption appeal, to challenge at highest court

PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - Former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday, prompting his legal team to promise a challenge at France's highest court.

The appeals court upheld a three-year prison sentence. In line with the initial ruling, it said two of those years were suspended and that Sarkozy would wear an electronic bracelet instead of going to jail for the remaining year.

By Tassilo Hummel 17, 20237:14 AM EDT

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Known in France as the "wiretapping affair", the case at the centre of Wednesday's ruling is indirectly linked to a suspicion of illegal campaign financing ahead of the 2007 election.

In 2013, investigators looking into money flows from Libya - over which Sarkozy may face another trial soon - wiretapped two of Sarkozy's phone lines and discovered a secret line used by the ex-president and his lawyer, Thierry Herzog.

NEXT?? Biden and his unlawful clique! 

SOME BACKUP HISTORY HERE:

In March, Sarkozy became France’s first postwar president to be handed a custodial sentence when he was given a three-year jail term, two years of which were suspended, for corruption and influence peddling over attempts to secure favours from a judge. Sarkozy has appealed that verdict and under French guidelines had not yet begun serving the sentence. If the verdict and sentence are upheld on appeal, there is a possibility of wearing an electronic ankle bracelet during his punishment.

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The only other president during the course of France's 64-year-old Fifth Republic to be convicted by a court was Sarkozy's conservative predecessor, the late Jacques Chirac, who was found guilty of corruption in 2011.

They both destroyed the conservative party's honour.

French prosecutors demanded Sarkozy face trial over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential election campaign.

At least somewhat was finally done of a complicated and conniving criminal, many more to come! 

Sarkozy has already been ordered to stand trial in a separate matter concerning financing of his failed re-election campaign in 2012, when he was defeated by François Hollande.

That case, known as the “Bygmalion affair”, centres on an alleged system of false accounting used by Sarkozy’s office to conceal an enormous campaign overspend, mainly on the lavish rallies and US-style stadium gigs that cemented Sarkozy’s reputation as a political showman. Sarkozy has denied all allegations in the case.

What did the French do to traitors in thè past? 

Time to revive history!