France’s highest court upholds Sarkozy conviction

France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, his latest legal setback after recently being jailed for nearly a month in another case. Sarkozy, who served one term as president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted in 2021 and again in 2024 […]