Tag: Nicolas Sarkozy
France’s Sarkozy to go on trial after final appeal fails
France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy is to go on trial facing charges of corruption and influence peddling after losing his final bid to avert...
French court to trial Sarkozy over illegal campaign financing
PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost an appeal against an earlier decision to send him to trial over charges of illegal campaign...
France’s Sarkozy to face trial for influence peddling
PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was ordered on Thursday to stand trial for influence peddling over accusations he offered to help a prosecutor...
Former French PM Sarkozy fights back against Libya investigation
PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will appeal court restrictions imposed on him after he was charged with financing his 2007 election campaign with...
France’s ex-president Sarkozy in custody over campaign funding inquiry
PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was being held in police custody on Tuesday for questioning by magistrates looking into allegations of Libyan funding...
Nicolas Sarkozy detained for enquiry over alleged corruption
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning as part of an enquiry into alleged abuse of power.
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Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy in French vote
Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking...
Sarkozy faces defeat as France heads to polls
France voted in elections on Sunday which could make Nicolas Sarkozy the 11th European leader to be swept from office by the economic crisis...
Libya funded Sarkozy 2007 campaign: ex-Libya PM’s lawyers
Moamer Kadhafi’s regime funded French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign, lawyers for former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi said Thursday, quoting their client....
Sarkozy goes for broke but Le Pen scorns his advances
Nicolas Sarkozy took his re-election bid to the streets of Paris on Tuesday, seeking to hijack the French left’s traditional May Day show of...
Sarkozy to sue after Gaddafi cash claim bursts into campaign
Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Monday to sue a website that claimed Moamer Gaddafi financed his 2007 presidential election, seeking to spin the charge in the...
France’s Sarkozy rules out deal with far right
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ruled out any pact with Marine Le Pen’s National Front after its electoral breakthrough but insisted far-right supporters...
Hollande beats Sarkozy in French vote, both in second round
Socialist challenger Francois Hollande stamped his authority on the French presidential race Sunday, beating Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of polling in which...
Sarkozy’s mea culpa as French presidential campaign winds up
Nicolas Sarkozy apologised for his mis-steps Friday, the final day of campaigning in France’s presidential election, while his main rival Francois Hollande was increasingly...
French Muslims feel stigmatised in vote debate
When police kicked in Mohamed Asbol’s at dawn and hauled away his son on suspicion of being an Islamist radical, he saw it as...
France launches hunt for Islamic extremists after attacks
President Nicolas Sarkozy, in mid-campaign for re-election, said Monday French security services would launch a hunt for Islamic extremists following the killing spree by...
Sarkozy banks on mass rally to lift flagging election hopes
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday chartered TGV high-speed trains and fleets of buses to ferry in supporters from across France for a mass...
