PARIS, June 15 —Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy told his trial on charges of illegal financing of his failed 2012 re-election campaign that he had committed no wrongdoing.
“Did I intend to commit a fraud, to do wrong? Was I careless? Negligent? My answer is the most formal no to all that,” Sarkozy told the court. “From the moment I was told things were in order, I had no reason to give it more thought.”