PARIS (Reuters) – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday told a trial into the alleged illegal financing of his 2012 re-election campaign that he had committed no wrongdoing.
“Did I have any intention of fraud… was I careless or negligent. I formally deny all that,” Sarkozy said.
The trial casts a further shadow over the career of a man who as president from 2007 to 2012 bestrode the national and global stage. Earlier this year, Sarkozy was convicted of corruption in a separate case.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Editing by Richard Lough)
