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Sarkozy Sentenced To Three Years In Prison, One Of Which Is Closed

Paul-Albert Iweins, lawyer of Thierry Herzog speaks to the press at the courthouse for the appeal hearing of a corruption trial at Paris courthouse on May 17, 2023. A French court of appeals will give its verdict on May 17, 2023, in one of several corruption and illegal campaign financing cases involving ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy. A French court on March 1, 2021 convicted former President Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of corruption and influence peddling, handing him a three-year prison sentence of which two years are suspended. Prosecutors called for him to be jailed for four years and serve a minimum of two, and asked for the same punishment for his co-defendants -- lawyer Thierry Herzog and the judge Gilbert Azibert. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Court ruling in the Bygmalion trial - Paris

French lawyer Thierry Herzog and French lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins arrives to attend the court ruling in the so-called Bygmalion case trial which sees former president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election campaign, in Paris, on September 30, 2021. Sarkozy and 13 others are accused of setting up or benefiting from a fake billing scheme to cover millions of euros in excess spending on campaign rallies. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Court ruling in the Bygmalion trial - Paris

French lawyer Thierry Herzog and French lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins arrives to attend the court ruling in the so-called Bygmalion case trial which sees former president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election campaign, in Paris, on September 30, 2021. Sarkozy and 13 others are accused of setting up or benefiting from a fake billing scheme to cover millions of euros in excess spending on campaign rallies. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Court ruling in the Bygmalion trial - Paris

French lawyer Thierry Herzog and French lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins arrives to attend the court ruling in the so-called Bygmalion case trial which sees former president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election campaign, in Paris, on September 30, 2021. Sarkozy and 13 others are accused of setting up or benefiting from a fake billing scheme to cover millions of euros in excess spending on campaign rallies. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Court ruling in the Bygmalion trial - Paris

French lawyer Thierry Herzog and French lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins arrives to attend the court ruling in the so-called Bygmalion case trial which sees former president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election campaign, in Paris, on September 30, 2021. Sarkozy and 13 others are accused of setting up or benefiting from a fake billing scheme to cover millions of euros in excess spending on campaign rallies. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Court ruling in the Bygmalion trial - Paris

French lawyer Thierry Herzog and French lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins arrives to attend the court ruling in the so-called Bygmalion case trial which sees former president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election campaign, in Paris, on September 30, 2021. Sarkozy and 13 others are accused of setting up or benefiting from a fake billing scheme to cover millions of euros in excess spending on campaign rallies. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Lawyer of Mathieu Valbuena Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Benzema sex tape trial - Versailles

Football player Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer Paul-Albert Iweins during the trial with Real Madrid soccer team player Karim Benzema and other defendants, on charges of involvement in an alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape almost five years ago, at the Versailles courthouse, near Paris, France, October 20, 2021. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM