Nicolas Sarkozy has been many things in French public life: president, campaigner, political disruptor and, in the long-running Libya financing affair, central defendant. How that case concludes will…

L’ex-président français a dû nuancer sa défense sur les soupçons de financement libyen de sa campagne de 2007.

French prosecutors have asked a Paris appeals court to sentence former president Nicolas Sarkozy to seven years in prison, and to ban him from public office for five years.