US EditionEx-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
- On Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy will be jailed at La Santé prison in Paris in solitary confinement in a nine-square-metre cell, officials say.
- Prosecutors say Sarkozy's 2007 campaign took Libyan money, alleging his team agreed to accept millions from Moamer Kadhafi; Judge Nathalie Gavarino ordered immediate incarceration citing 'exceptional gravity', with the appeals trial available.
- Sarkozy's long list of legal woes culminates in this moment as he becomes the first French leader jailed since Marechal Philippe Pétain, with six in ten people calling the sentence fair in an Elabe poll.
- Sarkozy's lawyers are expected to move for immediate release soon, while the court could grant home detention with an electronic ankle tag or keep him inside to prevent interference.
- This development carries symbolic weight across French and EU politics as the first former head of an EU country will serve time, while Louis Sarkozy, son, urged supporters to gather Tuesday morning.
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AlKhaleej TodayEx-French president Sarkozy calls jail ‘gruelling, a nightmare’ as prosecutors urge release pending appeal
PARIS, Nov 10 — Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday called his imprisonment a “nightmare” as prosecutors requested the former French president be released from jail pending an appeals trial over Libyan funding.A lower court in September found the right-winger — who was head of state from 2007 to 2012 — guilty of seeking to acquire funding from Moamer Kadhafi’s Libya for the campaign that saw him elected, and sentenced him to five years behind bars.The 70-…
BBC World Service - Newshour, Nicolas Sarkozy starts jail time in Paris
The former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has started his five- year sentence at La Santé prison in central Paris. Sarkozy was convicted of criminal conspiracy to finance his election campaign with funds from the Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. He denies wrongdoing. Also in the programme: A rare interview with the Israeli writer David Grossman on what he calls his country's moral test; and the German pastor who made a startling discovery a…
VIP area, green areas, sports facilities. France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy will now be sentenced to prison in La Sánte prison in Paris.
Presenting several suspensive appeals, Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyers hope to get their parole in two or three months, convinced that the former president will be able to continue from his cell his work on behalf of his strongest and most influential supporters: a significant number of large multinational companies.For many years Sarkozy has been running his own law firm, specializing in advising large companies, owned by millionaires such as Arnaud …
This Tuesday, 21 October, after his third criminal conviction, the former head of state may not be at the end of his sentences. Indeed, his judicial calendar continues in November and possibly as soon as...
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