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Five years in prison/ Former President Sarkozy begins his sentence today

2025-10-21 09:13:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Five years in prison/ Former President Sarkozy begins his sentence today

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy begins his five-year prison sentence today. Sarkozy is accused of criminal conspiracy in an attempt to use Libyan money to finance his 2007 election campaign.

Sarkozy is the first president in French history to be sentenced to prison. He will serve his sentence in Paris' La Santé prison, a prison that has housed some of the country's most notorious inmates since the 1800s.

Among the prisoners of La Sante were Captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason because he was Jewish, and the Venezuelan militant known as Carlos the Jackal, who carried out several attacks on French soil.

The Paris court sentenced former President Sarkozy to 5 years in prison in September of this year.

According to the ruling, the former French president will be able to file a request for release with the appeals court only after he is behind bars, and judges will have up to two months to process the request.

The former president has denied any wrongdoing and has protested the decision that he should be held in prison pending an appeal.

"I am not afraid of prison. I will hold my head high, including in front of the doors of La Santé. I will fight until the end," Sarkozy told the newspaper La Tribune Dimanche./ CNA





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