- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of illegally financing his 2012 re-election bid and was sentenced to one-year jail term by a French court on September 30, 2021.
- The court will allow Sarkozy to serve the one-year sentence at home by wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet. He was not present when the Paris court gave out its ruling.
- Nicolas Sarkozy had served as the President of France from 2007 to 2012. He was defeated by Socialist Party's François Hollande by a margin of 3.2 percent of votes in the 2012 elections.
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