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Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in jail for corruption and influence-peddling Sarkozy allegedly accepted illicit payments for presidential campaign Sarkozy bribed a judge for information about an investigation

Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in jail for corruption and influence peddling A French court found him guilty of trying to bribe a Magistrate Sarkozy will not go to prison as his sentence was suspended

Sarkozy, who is embroiled in several criminal investigations, denies any wrongdoing and has vowed to have all cases dismissed. 

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was on Tuesday in police custody for questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

French conservative former president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he would vote for centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the duo discussed regional and global issues of mutual interest.

A magistrate has ordered former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial over irregularities in the funding of his failed 2012 re-election bid, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial over the allegedly fraudulent financing of his doomed 2012 bid for re-election, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday. 

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy crashed out of the presidential election on Sunday, suffering a humiliating defeat in the first round of the rightwing primary.

It is the first rightwing primary to be held in France, and anyone who pays two euros ($2.1) and signs a declaration that, they subscribe to "the values of the centre and the right" can take part.

"Political Islam is doing battle against our values. There`s no room for compromise," Fillon said.

Ipsos contacted 9,574 people on Friday, of whom 807 had firm plans to vote in Sunday`s first round.

Alain Juppe, 71, entered the two-month-long contest with polls showing him to be France`s most popular politician

Nicolas Sarkozy was forced onto the defensive Thursday over his legal woes in the first debate of right-wing rivals for the French presidency, widely expected to be won by the right.

France`s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Alain Juppe will face off Thursday in a televised debate ahead of a primary widely seen as the main battle for the presidency.

France`s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Alain Juppe will come face to face on Thursday for a televised debate ahead of a November primary widely seen as the main battle for the presidency.

French Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday that once immigrants are granted citizenship in France they "should live like the French".

Hundreds of supporters waving French flags chanted "Nicolas! Nicolas!" and applauded as Sarkozy, a conservative president from 2007 to 2012 before losing an election to Socialist Francois Hollande, promised to protect the French people.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has labelled the full-body burkini swimsuits worn by some Muslim women a "provocation" that supports radicalised Islam, amid a heated debate over a ban on the swimwear in France.

The figures were released only one day after Sarkozy announced his intention to run for president in the 2017 presidential elections.