Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to serve one-year jail sentence

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a one-year prison sentence after being found guilty of corruption.

The 66-year-old was convicted by a court in Paris over attempts to bribe a judge in 2014 after he left office.

Mr Sarkozy was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison but two of them were later suspended.

The former president is able to request home detention with an electronic tag and is the first former French president to obtain a custodial sentence

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