Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after the verdict in his trial for illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris, on September 25, 2025. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
A French court will next month rule if former president Nicolas Sarkozy can escape serving more time, a source following the case said, after his lawyer sought on Monday, February 23, to merge two sentences for convictions in separate cases. The one-term president from 2007 to 2012 has faced a series of legal issues since leaving office.
Sarkozy became modern France's first-ever president to have gone to jail last year, serving 20 days in a case related to alleged Libyan funding in his 2007 election campaign. Sarkozy has filed an appeal. He has also received two definitive convictions in other cases." A request to merge sentences is an extremely routine procedure in this situation," his lawyer, Vincent Desry, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) before a hearing.
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