French magistrates to question Sarkozy on 2007 campaign funding

PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be questioned on Thursday by magistrates trying to establish whether his 2007 election campaign was illegally financed by the country's richest woman, a judicial source said.

The risk for Sarkozy, unseated in May but considered a potential conservative candidate in the 2017 presidential race, is that he ends up plagued by suspicion for months or years, even if his lawyer says there is no case against him.