Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Former French President Sarkozy Set for Trial Over 2012 Campaign

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France's Constitutional Council cleared the way on Friday for former president Nicolas Sarkozy to be tried over alleged illegal financing of his failed re-election campaign in 2012. Sarkozy had appealed to the council invoking the "double-jeopardy" principle because he had already been convicted in 2013 and ordered to pay more than 360,000 euros for breaching campaign-finance rules. But in its decision on Friday, the council ruled that the penalty Sarkozy was ordered to...

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