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Sarkozy Ordered to Begin Five-Year Term After Conspiracy Conviction

Allies urge a presidential pardon following an order to report on October 13.

The former French president must serve his sentence while awaiting the outcome of his appeal
People stop to read the official campaign posters for candidates in the French presidential election: Nicolas Sarkozy, France's President and UMP candidate and Marine Le Pen, France's National Front head in Paris, April 9, 2012. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
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Overview

  • The Paris criminal court found Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy tied to aides seeking Libyan funds for his 2007 campaign.
  • Judges imposed provisional enforcement, requiring him to start serving time during his appeal, with prosecutors to set his incarceration after an October 13 appointment.
  • He received a €100,000 fine and an immediate five-year ban from public office, and he was acquitted of bribery, embezzlement and proven illegal financing.
  • Sarkozy says he will appeal and insists on his innocence, as figures on the right condemn the enforcement and a former aide publicly urges President Emmanuel Macron to grant clemency.
  • The ruling makes him the first postwar French leader set to serve jail time, and separate inquiries, including a PNF probe into Qatar’s 2022 World Cup award, remain active.