Nicolas Sarkozy is convicted again for illegal financing of election campaign. The politician will appeal the sentence, which leaves the sentence of one year in prison suspended, of which he would have to serve half and with a bracelet.

The events date back to 2012, when the conservative Sarkozy, in office since 2007, ran for re-election. He exceeded by more than 20 million euros the maximum authorized by law to spend on the campaign, which was 22.5 million euros. To cover up the lack of control of the accounts, his party assumed the extraordinary expenses as its own.