29 November 2024,   04:42
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Prosecutors seek jail for ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy

French prosecutors have requested two years of prison and a two-year suspended sentence for former president Nicolas Sarkozy in a landmark corruption and influence peddling trial in Paris.


The 65-year-old Sarkozy is accused of having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about an investigation involving him.


Prosecutors requested the same sentence for Sarkozy’s co-defendants — his lawyer and friend Thierry Herzog and magistrate Gilbert Azibert. All three denied wrongdoing. Defence lawyers were due to speak on Wednesday and Thursday. The verdict is expected at a later date.

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