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Several judicial police vehicles are parked outside the Paris home of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, as a search is underway following the retraction of accusations by intermediary Ziad Takieddine concerning the Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign. IMAGES
French Republican presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse arrives at the offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in Paris, for an interview two days before the candidate's big rally, at the Zenith in Paris. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the correctional court in Paris to testify in the trial of his former colleagues in the Elysée polling fraud trial, a case in which he is not being prosecuted because he is covered by his presidential immunity. Five aides and allies of the former president of France are accused of having misused public money and cronyism. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy's former secretary general Claude Guéant and his former advisors Patrick Buisson and Pierre Giacometti arrive in court for the trial in the so-called Elysee polls affair, in which they're suspected of having commissioned numerous opinion polls without respecting public procurement rules during Sarkozy's presidency. IMAGES
Former French head of state Nicolas Sarkozy leaves court in Paris without saying a word, after being found guilty of corruption and handed a three-year prison sentence for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy, his former lawyer Thierry Herzog and former senior magistrate Gilbert Azibert leave court after the National Financial Prosecutor's Office issued an indictment asking for four years in prison, two of them suspended, for the three accused in the so-called "wiretapping" case. (COMPLETES VIDEOS VIDI8WQ2ZY_EN, VIDI8WP6TK_EN, VIDI8WQ3EV_EN) IMAGES