PariscTypeface:> France’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that former president Nicolas Sarkozy must serve a one-year sentence at home wearing an electronic ankle monitor.
The Court of Cassation rejected the conservative politician’s appeal of a lower court’s conviction for corruption and influence-peddling.
The lower court had given him a three-year sentence, with two years suspended. Sarkozy, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, is to wear an electronic tag instead of going to prison for the last year.
Sarkozy had been found guilty of securing confidential information from prosecutor Gilbert Azibert in 2014 regarding a different legal case via his lawyer, Thierry Herzog. In return for the information, Azibert was offered presidential support in applying for a post in Monaco. (DPA)