A French court ruled on Monday that former president Nicolas Sarkozy must serve jail time for an illegal funding conviction, a source close to the case said, after his lawyer sought to merge sentences ...

A Paris court on Monday rejected an application by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to merge a sentence served with ...

Footage of Nicolas Sarkozy being taunted by fellow inmates inside Paris' prison de la Santé has gone viral on social media, sparking a public controversy and a debate about prisoners' access to mobile ...

September 25, 2025, the Paris court appointed Nicolas Sarkozy five years in prison, of which one year - suspended. This marked the first time in the history of modern France that a former head of ...

PARIS(AP) — A court in Paris will decide whether to release France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy from prison on Monday, just 20 days after he was incarcerated. He was sentenced to five years in ...

PARIS(AP) — France’s top court on Wednesday upheld Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing of his 2012 reelection bid, in another blow to the former president's legacy and ...

Sarkozy was detained early on Tuesday morning and was being questioned by prosecutors specialising in corruption, money laundering and tax evasion at their office in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre.

Once the most powerful man in France, Nicolas Sarkozy has now lifted the lid on his astonishing fall from grace in a memoir recounting his brief spell behind bars. The 70-year-old became the first ...

Nicolas Sarkozy has described the prison where he spent 20 days as a noisy, harsh “all-grey” world of “inhuman violence” in a new memoir. The former French president shed light on his experience in ...