A Paris court will decide if ex president Nicolas Sarkozy is released weeks after being jailed. Photo: EPA PHOTO

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's request to be released from jail pending an appeal will be heard in a Paris court, less than a month after he started a five-year sentence for conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya.

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The former conservative president, 70, was found guilty of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

He was acquitted of all other charges, including corr

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