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.

Le procès en appel sur les soupçons de financement libyen de la campagne présidentielle de Nicolas Sarkozy en 2007 s'achève mercredi avec les plaidoiries de ses avocats.

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…