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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy loses corruption appeal

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a conviction for corruption and influence peddling.

The New Daily

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

A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a one-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy on a conviction for corruption and influence peddling

The Independent UK

French court upholds three-year sentence for ex-president Sarkozy in wiretapping case

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his case on Wednesday against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals. The court upheld a sentence of three years with two years suspended; he will wear an electronic bracelet for the remaining year instead of going…

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

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.

Reuters

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

French prosecutors are seeking to send former President Nicolas Sarkozy to trial on charges that he received millions in illegal campaign financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi

The Independent UK

France's Sarkozy should stand trial for alleged Libyan campaign financing -prosecutor

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy should stand trial on charges of corruption and illegal financing of an election campaign related to alleged Libyan funding of his successful 2007 presidential bid, France's financial prosecutor (PNF) said.

Reuters

From Trump to Sarkozy: the political leaders who have been prosecuted

Donald Trump is the first US president to be criminally charged, but across the globe, 78 countries have jailed or prosecuted leaders who left office since 2000

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Before Trump, which other world leaders were charged or jailed?

It is a US first, but Donald Trump joins a list of other world leaders in facing criminal charges.

Al Jazeera

Amid Trump indictment, a look back at France’s history of prosecuting ex-leaders

The United States waded into new territory on Thursday with the indictment of former president Donald Trump, a move that was unprecedented in US history. But other liberal democracies have extensive experience charging former – and sometimes current – leaders. While a serving French leader is generally safe from prosecution,…

France 24

Trump joins list of ex-presidents around the world who have been prosecuted in criminal cases

WASHINGTON — The criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump is unprecedented, but only as far as U.S. history goes.

Los Angeles Times

What does Donald Trump’s indictment say about US democracy?

The fact that there is no choreographed political theater around the indictment is precisely how democracies tend to work: in a messy and piecemeal fashion

The Guardian - US

Ranked! The top 18 footballers who became politicians

Some may be desperate to keep politics out of football, but the two disciplines have always mixed...

FourFourTwo

A look back at when French protesters defeated government reform plans

Anger at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform shows no sign of abating, with protests, strikes and unrest set to continue and both sides digging in their heels. To shed some light on the current stand-off, FRANCE 24 looks back at the last times the unions successfully forced the government to…

France 24

The challenge of enshrining abortion rights in the French constitution

During a speech given on International Woman’s Day, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision to put forward a bill enshrining abortion rights in the country's constitution. Despite being lauded by women’s rights groups, changing the constitution may be more difficult than it appears.

France 24

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Pension reform in France: Macron and demonstrators resume epic tussle begun over 30 years ago

More than 1 million people poured onto the streets in France on Thursday to protest the government’s plans to reform the pension regime. The bill, which was presented to the Council of Ministers on Monday, aims to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years old starting from…

Radio France Internationale

Macron's party office searched as part of consulting firm probe

French prosecutors said Wednesday that the headquarters of President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party had been searched in an investigation into the use of consulting firms by the government since 2017.

France 24

France's Sarkozy seeks to overturn corruption conviction at Paris appeal trial

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sought to convince a Paris court to overturn his March 2021 conviction for bribery and influence-peddling in an appeal hearing that started on Monday.

Reuters

France's Sarkozy seeks to overturn graft conviction at appeal trial

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sought to convince a Paris court to overturn his March 2021 conviction for bribery and influence-peddling in an appeal hearing that started on Monday.

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Factbox-Previous judicial investigations involving French leaders

France's financial prosecutor has opened a probe into suspected favouritism and alleged illegal financing of President Emmanuel Macron's 2017 campaign, in connection with contracts with McKinsey, Le Parisien newspaper said on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

To acquiesce to Macron’s call to stay silent on Qatar would be a crime in itself

The president of France has said politics should be kept out of sport but his request is not only an insult but a semantic impossibility

The Guardian - UK

World Cup 2022: everything you need to know about host country Qatar

Football’s grandest tournament will kick off for the first time in the Middle East on Sunday. Here is a guide to the host country

The National (Scotland)

Qatar World Cup ambassador calls homosexuality 'damage in the mind'

AN ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as “damage in the mind”, just two weeks before the opening of the football…

WEKU

FIFA's former leader says making Qatar a World Cup host was a mistake

Blatter, who has long said he voted for the United States, made the admission in his first major interview since being acquitted in July of financial misconduct at FIFA.

The Guardian - UK

Sepp Blatter says choosing Qatar to host World Cup was ‘a mistake’

Handing the World Cup to Qatar was a ‘mistake’ and a ‘bad choice’ according to the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter

Daily Mirror

Disgraced ex-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter admits picking Qatar 2022 World Cup "was a mistake"

The former FIFA president, who was banned in 2015, has claimed that the governing body initially wanted the US to host this year's tournament

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