It additionally barred him from public workplace for 3 years.
The decision means he might face 12 months underneath home arrest, relying on what a choose later decides.
Sarkozy, 69, who had been discovered responsible of unlawful makes an attempt to safe favours from a choose, will “evidently” respect the sentence, his lawyer Patrice Spinosi advised AFP.
However he’ll take the case to the European Courtroom of Human Rights inside weeks, Spinosi added.
That won’t, nevertheless, maintain up Wednesday’s sanction, Sarkozy having exhausted all of the authorized avenues in France.
Spinosi mentioned it was a “unhappy day” when “a former president is required to take motion earlier than European judges to have condemned a state over whose future he as soon as presided.”
He mentioned his shopper was “calm and decided”.
However Sarkozy himself mentioned he was “not prepared to simply accept the profound injustice that’s being finished to me”.
His attraction to the European courtroom in Strasbourg “might, alas, result in a condemnation of France”, he mentioned. This might have been averted, he added, “if I had benefitted from a level-headed authorized evaluation”.
