"Paris Court Reduces Ex-French President Sarkozy's 2012 Campaign Financing Sentence by Half"

A Paris court has reduced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's one-year prison sentence for illegal campaign financing to six months, with the other half suspended. Sarkozy, who has faced a series of legal issues, was found guilty of hiding illegal overspending in his 2012 re-election campaign. Despite his legal woes, he remains influential in French politics and has a trial scheduled for 2025 over allegations of taking money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential bid.