Nicolas Sarkozy: Seven years prison and a fine of 300,000 euros is proposed by the prosecutor for the former President of France

The financial prosecutor’s office at France He asked today (27/03/2025) to impose a 7 -year prison sentence and a fine of 300,000 euros on the former president Nicolas Sarkozy for the illegal funding of his election campaign from Libya of Muammar Gaddafi.

For former ministers and close associates of Nicolas Sarkozy, Claude Ghean and Brice Ortefe, prosecutors in France have requested to impose penalties of six and three years, respectively, on the grounds that they helped to “conclude” a “corruption agreement” with his dictator.

Sarkozy, who heard the prosecutor’s prosecutor, “challenges the events and does not seem to understand the seriousness of the offenses.

The three financial prosecutors had already asked the Court in their speeches yesterday and Tuesday to find the former president guilty of all the offenses he has been tried on January 6: Corruption, acceptance of resources embezzled by public funds, illegal funding.

Prosecutors have also requested that his political rights be deprived of Sarkozy for five years.

The former president, referring to a “excessive” penalty, later said in a post on social networking sites that “he will continue to fight for the truth and believe in the wisdom of the court”.