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 decide later decides.
Sarkozy, 69, who had been discovered responsible of unlawful makes an attempt to safe favours from a decide, will “evidently” respect the sentence, his lawyer Patrice Spinosi informed AFP.
However he’ll take the case to the European Court docket 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 stated 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 stated his consumer was “calm and decided”.
However Sarkozy himself stated he was “not prepared to just accept the profound injustice that’s being finished to me”.
His attraction to the European court docket in Strasbourg “might, alas, result in a condemnation of France”, he stated. This might have been prevented, he added, “if I had benefitted from a level-headed authorized evaluation”.