Former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been charged with pressuring a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya. The former supermodel has been put on bail which stops her from contacting any of those involved in the proceedings with the exception of her husband, according to an official who could not be named.
Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France from 2007 to 2012, has already been convicted in two other cases. He has vigorously denied wrongdoing in all the cases. In February, an appeals court in Paris upheld a guilty verdict against the former president for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy was sentenced to a year in prison, of which six months were suspended. His lawyers have appealed to the Court of Cassation, France's highest court.