Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court, upheld on Wednesday former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing, in his latest legal headache after recently being jailed for nearly a month in another case. Sarkozy, 70, had appealed against the 2024 conviction for illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid, in which he had been handed a one-year prison sentence. Six months of that sentence were suspended and could be served through alternative means such as wearing an electronic bracelet without going to jail. Sarkozy, a one-term president from 2007-2012, has faced a series of legal challenges since leaving office and was sent to jail last month in a separate case related to an earlier election campaign.” (11/26/25)