Overview
- The Paris criminal court convicted Nicolas Sarkozy of association to commit a crime over efforts to solicit Libyan money for his 2007 campaign and issued a mandat de dépôt, with imprisonment to be executed after a formal summons.
- Prosecutors are set to summon him on October 13 to notify the incarceration order, which remains executable despite his announced appeal.
- Judges acquitted him of passive corruption and receiving public funds, noting they found no demonstration that Libyan money ultimately reached the campaign.
- Close associates were also found guilty, with Claude Guéant convicted on influence‑peddling and corruption counts and Brice Hortefeux convicted of criminal association.
- Sarkozy declared his innocence and vowed to appeal, while reactions split the political class and an ally publicly urged President Emmanuel Macron to grant clemency on the immediate incarceration order.