On September 25, 2025, Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court to five years in prison, one of which was suspended, for "criminal conspiracy" in connection with the Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign. This decision, accompanied by a deferred arrest warrant, is the first for a former French president since World War II. Sarkozy immediately announced his intention to appeal and denounced a "serious attack on the rule of law."
In a video posted on his social media this Thursday, Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his gratitude to the many French people who have shown him their support. He said:
“Since September 25, the day I was sentenced to five years in prison, I have received thousands and thousands of testimonies. They have touched me beyond what you can imagine. My family has been devastated. And for me, all this affection, I was going to say all this love, gives me indomitable strength.
I wanted to thank each of you for this effort, for this mark of attention, for this solidarity that you wanted to show me. Of course, it is an ordeal. And I will not hide from you the difficulty of this ordeal for my family as well as for myself. But at the same time as I thank you, I wanted each of you to understand that I will not give up, thatWe will win because truth and innocence must triumph.
Thank you once again for everything you have done for me. I take you with me. I will overcome this ordeal. But know that I will never let France and the French people down.«
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On September 25, 2025, Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court to five years in prison, one of which was suspended, for "criminal association"
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