A picture taken on March 3, 2012, in Paris, shows France's incumbent President and then Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party candidate for the 2012 presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy, during a symposium. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will appear before investigating magistrates on November 23, 2012 in a probe into illegal campaign financing, French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported on November 19. The newspaper reported in its online edition that Sarkozy will appear before a judge in Bordeaux, southwestern France, investigating alleged illegal financing of his 2007 campaign by L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. AFP PHOTO   LIONEL BONAVENTURE
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