A Paris court has found Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former president, guilty of corruption and influence peddling, sentencing him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence.The 66-year-old politician, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted on Monday for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014. This came to light, they said, while they were wiretapping conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog after the former left office. The wiretapping was carried out in relation to another investigation into alleged…
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