FRANCE: Former president Nicolas Sarkozy maintained his innocence today, telling an appeal hearing in Paris that not a single euro cent from Libya had helped fund his 2007 presidential campaign.

“I owe the truth to the French people,” he told a three-judge panel. “I’m innocent.”

Mr Sarkozy, 71, was found guilty in September of criminal conspiracy and sentenced to five years in prison for his part in a scheme to obtain funds from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi in exchange for political and diplomatic favours.

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