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FILE: France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his residence to present himself to La Sante Prison for incarceration on a five-year prison sentence on October 21, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
November 10, 2025, 4:40 pm
French court frees former president Nicolas Sarkozy from jail, pending appeal
Ex-leader set to go free 20 days after beginning 5-year sentence over a scheme to secure campaign funds from Gaddafi’s Libya, with appeal meaning he’s again presumed innocent
By Alexandre Marchand and Eleonore Dermy
France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy (C), with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves his residence to present himself to La Sante Prison for incarceration on a five-year prison sentence, on October 21, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
October 21, 2025, 12:08 pm
Ex-French president Sarkozy starts 5-year prison sentence over funds from Gaddafi scandal
Sarkozy to be held in isolation, will get 3 visits a week, prison officials say; supporters gather outside former leader’s home, as he maintains his innocence in affair
By Nicolas Gaudichet and Phenix Kim
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves in front of his wife French-Italian singer Carla Bruni 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. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)
September 26, 2025, 4:06 am
French ex-president Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years for seeking funds from Gaddafi
France’s former head of state convicted of criminal conspiracy for attempting to raise campaign money from Libyan strongman, with sentence to take effect immediately
By Juliette Jabkhiro, Lucien Libert and Ingrid Melander
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) at a court hearing in Paris on June 15, 2021. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)
May 17, 2023, 7:19 pm
French court upholds Sarkozy’s graft sentence in wiretapping case
Former president plans on appealing the ruling that found him guilty of founding a ‘corruption pact’ with his lawyer and a judge
By Anne Lec'hvien and Anne-Sophie LASSERRE
French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, November 11, 2019. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP, file)
September 30, 2021, 2:58 pm
Ex-French president Sarkozy sentenced to a year in campaign financing case
But court allows former head of state, 66, to serve out his time under house arrest; sentence can be appealed; charges relate to his unsuccessful 2012 reelection attempt
By Sylvie Corbet
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd right) arrives for a hearing in Paris, on June 15, 2021. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)
June 17, 2021, 11:58 pm
French prosecutors seek six months in jail for Sarkozy
Former president accused of taking cavalier attitude toward trial over alleged campaign finance violations, dating back to failed 2012 re-election bid
By AFP
In this Oct.29, 2020 file photo, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony in Nice, southern France (Valery Hache; Pool via AP, File)
March 1, 2021, 4:03 pm
Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, jailed for a year
66-year-old politician found guilty of illegally obtaining information from magistrate; faces another trial for illegal financing of 2012 campaign
By Sylvie Corbet
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, left in sash, attends a ceremony honoring the victims of the 2012 Toulouse Jewish school shooting, on May 19, 2019, by naming two alleys in the city after the three victims. (Anne Hidalgo/Twitter/via JTA)
May 21, 2019, 10:45 pm
Paris alleys dedicated to children killed in Toulouse Jewish school attack
‘The families wanted these plaques to be in a square, a place alive with laughter and swings,’ Paris mayor says at dedication; Toulouse to debate its own tribute
By Marcy Oster
French President Emmanuel Macron holds children by the hands as he visit the vandalized Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, eastern France, Tuesday, February 19, 2019. (Frederick Florin, Pool via AP)
February 20, 2019, 5:09 am
‘That’s enough’: Thousands rally in France to oppose recent anti-Semitic acts
‘Every time a French person, because he or she is Jewish, is insulted, threatened — or worse, injured or killed — the whole Republic’ is attacked, says Macron at Shoah memorial
By Samuel Petrequin and Sylvie Corbet
President of Turkey and the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the AK Party's parliamentary group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in Ankara on May 8, 2018. (AFP/Adem Altan)
May 8, 2018, 6:50 pm
Erdogan blasts French call to remove anti-Semitic pages from Quran
Turkish president says politicians, community leaders who published manifesto ‘no different’ from IS terror group
By AFP
A woman carries a poster reading "I am a Jew" as she attends a silent march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago but was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment, apparently targeted because she was Jewish, and to denounce racism, in Paris, France, on March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
April 22, 2018, 4:03 am
‘A quiet ethnic purging’: 300 French personalities protest ‘new anti-Semitism’
Public manifesto, co-signed by politicians and celebrities, decries ‘Islamist radicalization’
By AFP
Former French Presidents Francois Hollande, left, and Nicolas Sarkozy wait prior to a national ceremony for Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, Wednesday March 28, 2018 at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
March 29, 2018, 8:50 pm
France’s ex-president Sarkozy to stand trial for corruption
Former conservative leader accused of taking millions in illegal campaign financing from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi
By Angela Charlton
In this photo taken on October 18, 2016 the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy poses for a portrait in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)
March 23, 2018, 9:41 am
Scandal-hit Sarkozy vows to clear name, but says ‘finished’ in politics
Former French president accused of accepting up to €50 million funding for election campaign from Libya’s Gaddafi
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Baptiste PACE
French then-president Nicolas Sarkozy attends newly named member of the Constitutional Council Dominique Lottin's oath-taking ceremony at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, November 6, 2017. (Christophe Petit Tesson/ AP)
March 20, 2018, 12:28 pm
Ex-French president Sarkozy arrested in Libya funding probe
Investigators believe Muammar Gaddafi illegally paid millions of dollars to help Sarkozy in his 2007 election campaign
By AP
A firefighter gives assistance after Les Republicains (LR) party candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet collapsed after an altercation with a passerby while campaigning in the 5th arrondissement in Paris on June 15, 2017, ahead of the second round of the French legislative election. (AFP/Geoffroy van der Hasselt)
June 16, 2017, 7:48 pm
French center-right lawmaker in hospital after suspected assault
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, whose ancestors were Jewish but who was raised Catholic, knocked unconscious while handing out flyers
By JTA
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