News! The French court sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years’ imprisonment for corruption and two years’ probation.
Agence France-Presse stated that a local French court sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy on March 1st local time on the crimes of embezzlement and personal use of power and sentenced him to 3 Years of imprisonment, suspended for 2 years.
Agence France-Presse said that considering the two-year probation, the one-year imprisonment means that Sarkozy is unlikely to be "in jail," and in France, this punishment usually applies to more than two years of imprisonment.
Sarkozy was suspected of illegally accepting funding from the late L'Oréal heir Liliana Bettencourt in the 2007 presidential campaign and was later charged