Nicolas Sarkozy's appeal denied, must wear electronic tag and serve prison sentence.

The Paris Court of Appeals has upheld a 2021 conviction of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling, sentencing him to three years with two years suspended. Sarkozy has vowed to appeal the verdict at France’s Supreme Court. The case involved a secret telephone line discovered through wiretapping, which Sarkozy and his former lawyer, Thierry Herzog, used to form a "corruption pact" with a judge to obtain and share information about a legal investigation. Sarkozy still faces retrial in the Bygmalion case and a potential new trial over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign.