Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is standing trial for allegedly having received illegal campaign financing from Libya's ex-dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The case could show the strength of France's ...

Mr. Sarkozy’s lawyer, Vincent Desry, immediately said that Mr. Sarkozy would appeal to France’s highest court. “Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy is fully innocent,” he said.

France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honour medal following his conviction last year of corruption and influence peddling while in office, it was announced ...