PARIS—Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty Monday of attempting to bribe a justice of the peace, starting to be the to start with president in the heritage of France’s post-Entire world War II republic to face jail time.
A Paris courtroom convicted Mr. Sarkozy on rates of affect-peddling and corruption, sentencing him to a few yrs in jail for presenting to assistance a justice of the peace land a plum posture in Monaco in trade for private information about an inquiry into the finances of his 2007 presidential campaign.
The courtroom suspended two of the a few yrs of Mr. Sarkozy’s jail sentence. Beneath French law, he is not needed to provide any jail time until finally the appeals process is fatigued.
Mr. Sarkozy “used his standing as a previous president and the political and diplomatic associations he designed though in ability to reward a justice of the peace who served his individual pursuits,” the judges wrote in their ruling.
Mr. Sarkozy left the courtroom with no building a statement. A law firm for Mr. Sarkozy did not quickly respond to a ask for for remark.