Nicolas Sarkozy

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau leaves the weekly cabinet meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France is banning activist groups as presidential rivals jockey for position ahead of 2027 poll

France is banning activist groups on the edges of the political spectrum as it tries to portray itself as the guardian of democracy against extremism.
April 30
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival on Dec. 10 2007 at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Trial of former President Sarkozy sheds light on France’s back-channel talks with Libya’s Gadhafi

April 8
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen reacts at the National Assembly during a session Tuesday, April 1, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Here’s a look at the election ban on France’s far-right Le Pen and the legal issues

April 1
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, welcomes French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Bab Azizia Palace in Tripoli, July 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Trial of former President Sarkozy sheds light on France’s back-channel talks with Libya’s Gadhafi

March 28
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

French prosecutors seek 7-year sentence for Sarkozy in Libya campaign financing trial

March 27

African leaders, global dignitaries mark 30th anniversary of Rwandan genocide

Rwanda President Paul Kagame led a sombre commemoration ceremony in the capital Kigali on Sunday on the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Foreign visitors included the leaders of South Africa, Congo, Ethiopia, Central African Republic and Tanzania, as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Former US and French presidents Bill Clinton and Nicolas Sarkozy also attended.
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France’s Macron leads VE Day ceremony

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Former French President Sarkozy denounces ‘plot’ at trial over alleged campaign funding by Libya

January 9
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks on as he attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, as part of the commemorations marking the105th anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice, ending World War I, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP, File)

A look at the legal cases filed against France’s former President Sarkozy

January 6
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s former President Sarkozy stands trial over alleged campaign funding by Libya’s Gadhafi

January 6
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks on as he attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, as part of the commemorations marking the105th anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice, ending World War I, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP, File)

Sarkozy’s court defeat: a look at the legal cases involving France’s former president

December 18, 2024
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courtroom for his appeal trial of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

France’s highest court upholds corruption conviction of former President Nicolas Sarkozy

December 18, 2024
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 file picture, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy caresses the brow of her husband, the former French President and candidate for France's conservative presidential primary, Nicolas Sarkozy, during a campaign meeting in Marseille, southern France. Former first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was given preliminary charges Tuesday, July 9, 2024, and placed under judicial supervision for alleged involvement in efforts to pressure a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Ex-French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy charged with witness tampering in husband’s campaign case

July 10, 2024
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks on as he attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, as part of the commemorations marking the105th anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice, ending World War I, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 in Paris. An appeals court in Paris on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 upheld a guilty verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

Paris court upholds conviction of French ex-President Sarkozy in illegal campaign funding

February 14, 2024
FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, Dec. 10 2007 in Paris. French investigative judges have filed Friday Oct.6, 2023 preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy for his alleged involvement in an attempt to mislead magistrates in order to clear him in a case regarding the suspected illegal financing from Libya of his 2007 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French judges file charges against ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy in a case linked to Libya

October 6, 2023
FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, in Paris Dec. 10, 2007. French investigative magistrates on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French former President Nicolas Sarkozy to go on trial over Libya financing for 2007 campaign

August 25, 2023
FILE - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courtroom for his appeal trial of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 in Paris. A French appeals court on Wednesday May 17, 2023 upheld a one-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy on a conviction for corruption and influence peddling. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Former French President Sarkozy loses appeal on corruption conviction; prison sentence upheld

May 17, 2023
FILE - In this Dec. 10 2007 file photo, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. French prosecutors are seeking to send former President Nicolas Sarkozy to trial on charges that he received millions in illegal campaign financing from the regime of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French prosecutors seek trial for Sarkozy over Libya financing for 2007 campaign

May 11, 2023
FILE - FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter announces that Qatar will be hosting the 2022 Soccer World Cup, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, during the FIFA 2018 and 2022 World Cup Bid Announcement in Zurich, Switzerland. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, that picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago(AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri, File)

Blatter says picking Qatar as World Cup host was a ‘mistake’

November 8, 2022
FILE - In this Monday Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Sarkozy is facing potential prison term in a verdict to be rendered on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 about campaign financing in his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy, France’s president from 2007 to 2012, has vigorously denied wrongdoing during the May-June trial. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP, file)

Sarkozy convicted by French court in campaign financing case

September 30, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, poses for a selfie as he visits the site of the future factory of battery maker Envision AESC group, where French car marker Renault develops an electric-vehicle manufacturing hub, in Douai, northern France, Monday June 28, 2021. Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France's far right in regional elections Sunday. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP)

France’s regional vote shows weakness of Macron and Le Pen

June 28, 2021
FILE - In this Thursday, May, 24, 2007 file picture, French President Nicolas Sarkozy sits during an official and traditional ceremony with Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe, whose empty chair is at right, during which the newly elected President is met by the Paris mayor at the Paris city hall, France. The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy concludes Tuesday in Paris, after a month during which the court sought to determine whether he broke laws on campaign financing in his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

France’s Sarkozy faces jail term in campaign financing trial

June 22, 2021
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the court room in Paris, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Nicolas Sarkozy goes trial on charges that his unsuccessful reelection bid was illegally financed. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

France: Sarkozy denies wrongdoing in campaign funding trial

June 15, 2021
FILE - In this Nov.13, 2020 file photo, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courtroom Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 in Paris. . Sarkozy is set to go on trial on Thursday, May 20, 2021, on charges that his unsuccessful reelection bid was illegally financed. Sarkozy, is facing allegations that he spent almost twice the maximum legal amount of 22.5 million euros ($27.5 million) in his 2012 reelection bid, which he lost to Socialist Francois Hollande (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

France’s Sarkozy goes on trial over 2012 campaign financing

May 20, 2021

Sarkozy rules out French presidential run after conviction

March 2, 2021
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courtroom Monday, March 1, 2021 in Paris. The verdict is expected in a landmark corruption and influence-peddling trial that has put French former President Nicolas Sarkozy at risk of a prison sentence if he is convicted. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, firmly denied all the allegations against him during the 10-day trial that took place at the end of last year. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail

March 1, 2021

French ex-President Sarkozy’s trial for corruption suspended

November 23, 2020
FILE - In this Oct.29, 2020 file photo, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony in Nice, southern France. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants authorities to drop an investigation into alleged illegal financing of his 2007 campaign by the regime of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. A French-Lebanese businessman this week backtracked on claims he made in 2016 that he had handed Sarkozy suitcases of Libyan cash (Valery Hache; Pool via AP, File)

France’s Sarkozy seeks closure of Libyan corruption case

November 12, 2020

Tuesday Sports in Brief

June 19, 2019
Police officers guard the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police headquarters in Nanterre, outside Paris,Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested in relation to a corruption probe into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a judicial official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

France detains soccer great Platini in 2022 World Cup probe

June 18, 2019
FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2017 file photo, conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope attend a campaign meeting in Paris. A French judicial official says investigating judges have requested that former Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his wife stand trial on corruption charges. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Former French PM Fillon and wife to stand corruption trial

April 23, 2019

France’s ex-president Sarkozy to face a corruption trial

March 29, 2018

France: Ex-leader Sarkozy charged over Libyan money claims

March 21, 2018

Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi financing claims

March 21, 2018
A couple watches a live broadcast television debate with French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, right, and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, in Lyon, central France, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron exchanged barbs and insults on Wednesday during their sole televised debate ahead of Sunday's runoff election. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

French election: Turning points

May 5, 2017

The ‘Trump effect’ weighs on France’s presidential election

November 16, 2016

French far-right soars in presidential vote

April 22, 2012
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