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1 day agoFrench prosecutors demand seven-year sentence for Sarkozy
Prosecutors sought a seven-year prison sentence for Nicolas Sarkozy over alleged Libyan financing for his 2007 election campaign.
On the morning of May 13, 1993, a man dressed in black and rigged with explosives entered a daycare center in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a wealthy suburb of Paris, and took 20 children and their teacher hostage. In exchange for their release, the kidnapper demanded 100 million francs (about $17 million). But the town's mayor, a young and ambitious politician named Nicolas Sarkozy, decided to ignore the police's advice and go in to negotiate with the abductor.