The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began on Monday over allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign financing from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy was in office from 2007 to 2012.
If convicted, he could face a decade behind bars.
Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Paris.
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