Sarkozy sued for illegal campaign

paris - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy must be before a judge to answer for the financing of his campaign for the presidency in 2012. This funding would have been illegal, thinks justice.

The campaign has a financial limit and justice suspects Sarkozy of having exceeded that limit. Except justify the former president should further thirteen others in the same case before a court. Justice Tuesday made no amounts are known.

The 62-year-old conservative Republicans was president from 2007 until 2012. Sarkozy He lost the 2012 election of Socialist Francois Hollande.