Sarkozy: Corruption charges unfair

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has denounced charges against him in connection with a probe into illegal party funding as “unfair and unfounded”.

In his first reaction to the charge laid on Thursday, Sarkozy used his Facebook page to insist that he had not taken advantage of France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, when she was weakened by ill health.

“I want to insist that, at no moment in my public life, did I betray the duties of my office,” he wrote.