O ex-presidente francês Nicolas Sarkozy recorre da pena de prisão. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeals prison term.

O ex-presidente francês Nicolas Sarkozy apelou da pena de um ano de prisão por financiamento ilegal de campanha na sua tentativa fracassada de reeleição em 2012. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has appealed his one-year prison sentence for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. O Tribunal de Recurso de Paris manteve a pena de 12 meses, mas suspendeu-a durante seis meses. The Paris Court of Appeal upheld the 12-month sentence but suspended six months of it. O advogado de Sarkozy, Vincent Desry, alegou que o seu cliente era totalmente inocente e interpôs recurso para o mais alto tribunal de França, a Cour de Cassation. Sarkozy's lawyer, Vincent Desry, claimed that his client was entirely innocent and filed an appeal to France's highest court, the Cour de Cassation.