00:01Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on Wednesday that he had not betrayed the trust
00:07of the French people in his final statement before the Paris Court of Appeal, which is
00:11retrying the case into allegations that the late Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi secretly funded
00:16his successful 2007 presidential campaign. Sarkozy was sentenced in September 2025 to
00:23five years for criminal conspiracy, becoming the first former French president in modern
00:28history to be imprisoned. He served 20 days in Paris-la-Santé prison before being released
00:34in November under court supervision. He appealed the initial decision and prosecutors followed,
00:40seeking to revive the charges and impose a longer sentence of seven years.
00:45The prosecution asked the three judges hearing the appeal to find Sarkozy guilty of corruption,
00:50illegal campaign financing and concealing the embezzlement of Libyan public funds,
00:55three charges of which he was cleared at his first trial. A verdict is expected by the 30th of November.
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