PARIS — France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, was set to go on trial on Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Sarkozy's career has been shadowed by legal troubles since he lost the 2012 presidential election, but he is an influential figure and also known to regularly meet President Emmanuel Macron.