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PARIS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The acquittal of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in a 2004 conspiracy case will be appealed, a French prosecutor announced Friday.
Jean-Claude Marin says he will seek a new trial of the case that involved an attempt to defame the reputation of Nicholas Sarkozy before he was elected president of France, the New York Times reports.
De Villepin was acquitted of complicity in slander, forgery, use of stolen property and breach of trust.
The prosecution's charge that de Villepin failed to stop the conspiracy to defame Sakozy did not impress the court, observers say.
His acquittal leaves him free to challenge Sarkozy for the French presidency in 2012.
Sarkozy was a plaintiff in the case against de Villepin that stemmed from forged documents linking Sarkozy and others to secret accounts supposedly containing kickbacks from arms sales to Taiwan.
De Villepin's three co-defendants were convicted earlier.
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