<story><title>Ex-President Sarkozy Gets Jail Sentence for Corruption in France</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/world/europe/france-sarkozy-trial-guilty.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remh</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to note how slow the French justice is.
It took 7 years between the evidence being found by investigators and the trial.
It&amp;#x27;s going to take a few more years with the appeal and in all cases he will never step foot in prison, which is ironic given that Sarkozy was a huge proponent of Zero Tolerance policies.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, Jacques Chirac was condemned in 2011: 11 years after what he did became known, 16 years after he left the Mairie de Paris. At which point, his mental and physical health was so poor he didn&amp;#x27;t even stand in trial.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ex-President Sarkozy Gets Jail Sentence for Corruption in France</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/world/europe/france-sarkozy-trial-guilty.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphroz</author><text>And he is also accused of having his presidential campaign financed by the Colonel Gaddafi  who he later attacked. I doubt he will ever go to jail tho.</text></comment>