Even if Sarkozy appeals the ruling, he will have to spend time in jail, making him the first former French president to do so Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years ...

President Emmanuel Macron has appointed a string of allies who will remain in critical state positions after next year’s presidential election, and who could thwart a far-right successor.

France’s highest court has upheld a conviction against Nicolas Sarkozy, who led France until 2012. It comes weeks after he was jailed in a different fraud trial. By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from ...

Paris — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his 2007 ...