PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was back in court Monday for a retrial on charges he sought Libyan financing for his 2007 election, in a case that last year saw him become France’s first modern-day head of state to go to prison. A lower court in September found the right-wing politician — who was president from 2007 to 2012 — guilty of seeking to acquire funding from Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya for the campaign that saw him elected. Sarkozy — who has denied any wrongdoing — in October entered a Paris prison, serving 20 days before he was released pending the appeal.

Ex-French president, who was jailed last year for criminal conspiracy, to be tried at Paris appeal court on four counts

El expresidente francés, que pasó varias semanas en una prisión parisina tras ser condenado a cinco años de cárcel en primera instancia, recurrió la sentencia