Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will begin serving a five-year prison sentence in Paris next week for illegally receiving funds from ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A court in Paris sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of allegedly illegally financing Sarkozy's election campaign by the government of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. "Time" has already written.
Nicolas Sarkozy On October 21, he must report to a Paris prison to serve his prison sentence, according to a verdict for a criminal conspiracy from Libya for his election campaign in 2007, RTL television reported.
Office of the Financial Prosecutor in Paris she announced that she could neither confirm nor deny the RTL report. After the sentencing, Sarkozy claimed that he was innocent and that the prison sentence was an "injustice and a scandal".
After speaking with the Office of the National Financial Prosecutor, Nicolas Sarkozy left the courthouse shortly after learning the details of the prison sentence, LeFigaro reported at the time.
On October 21, Sarkozy will begin serving his five-year prison sentence, most likely in the "VIP wing" of the La Sante prison complex in Paris, reports France24.
CNN, in an extensive report on the detention conditions of the former French president, said the "VIP wing" is intended for inmates who are deemed unfit to be among the general prison population, usually due to fears for their safety. These can be politicians, former police officers, members of far-right organizations and others.
Over the past century and a half, the walls of La Santé have deprived many famous French people of their freedom, as well as others.
The La Sante prison is located opposite a home for the elderly in the residential part of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and over the past 150 years, many famous people have been imprisoned there, including one of the most wanted terrorists in the world in the 1970s and 1980s, Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez.
Other notable prisoners include Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish military commander at the center of the Dreyfus Affair in the late 19th century, and more recently Alexandre Benalla, an aide and former bodyguard to Emmanuel Macron, who was jailed after a video emerged showing him beating Yellow Vest protesters.
If Sarkozy is placed in the VIP wing, he will be assigned one of 18 identical nine-square cells, each with a stove, fridge, television, shower and toilet, as well as a landline that allows inmates to call designated authorized numbers.
Sarkozy will not be the first world leader in La Sante prison either, because the former dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega, was imprisoned before him, after he was extradited from the United States of America after the American invasion of that country, in which he was overthrown.
However, Sarkozy will be the first French post-war leader and the first former head of a member of the European Union to serve a prison sentence.
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