Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy misplaced his bid to overturn a historic legal conviction, in accordance with Agence France-Presse.
The Paris court docket of appeals on Wednesday backed a one-year jail time period over allegations he supplied to assist a Justice of the Peace land a prestigious job in return for a favor. The extra two-year suspended sentence handed down by a decrease court docket in 2021 was additionally upheld by the court docket, the company reported.
An legal professional for Sarkozy didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Whereas he wasn’t the primary former French president to go on trial in trendy instances, Sarkozy was the primary to get a non-suspended sentence. The late Jacques Chirac was too sick to attend court docket earlier than he was discovered responsible in 2011 of misusing Paris metropolis funds, and convicted to a two-year suspended time period.
The case facilities on tapped cellphone calls of Sarkozy courting again to 2014, after he’d left workplace.
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