The European Left is in their death throes and they know it.
The bullshit prosecution of Nicolas Sarkozy mirrors other such bullshit prosecutions of conservatives around the world where the Left went against Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Marie Le Pen of France, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Jacques Chirac of France, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, and approximately seventy other such conservative leaders from around the world.
And it will get worse before it gets better. In Europe I can imagine the rush will be on to elevate more Muslims into positions of power to prevent the right from kicking them out of Europe.