Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, is going on trial for illegally funding his 2012 re-election campaign.
BBC: Ex-French president Sarkozy goes on trial again
(FILES) In this file photo taken on Feb. 16, 2016 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) arrives at the Pole financier (the financial section of Paris court house) in the French capital, on Feb. 16, 2016, to be heard in the investigation of false invoices in the "Bygmalion affair", a corruption scandal centred on claims that his party paid some of his campaign expenses in 2012 to get around strict spending limits. - Sarkozy and 13 other defendants will go on trial on May 20, 2021 for a hearing in the "Bygmalion affair".
