Marine Le Pen isn't the first prominent French politician to be disqualified from public office. Since it stopped being ...

French prosecutors have requested seven years in prison and a fine of 300,000 euros or around $325,000 for former President ...

French prosecutors requested a seven-year prison sentence and a fine of appoximately $325,000 usd for former President ...

The monthslong trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is shedding light on France’s back-channel talks with the ...

Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, have both been placed under preliminary investigation in that case. Sarkozy's former ministers Claude Guéant, Brice Hortefeux and Éric Woerth are also ...

He later retracted his statement. That reversal is now the focus of a separate investigation into possible witness tampering. Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, have both been placed under ...