US EditionEx-French President Sarkozy's 5-year jail term to start next week, RTL reports
Sarkozy will serve a five-year term at La Santé prison for criminal conspiracy over illegal Libyan campaign financing, becoming the first postwar French leader jailed, officials said.
- On October 21, Nicolas Sarkozy is to report to La Santé prison in Paris after prosecutors informed him on October 13 where and when to begin serving the sentence.
- During the trial, prosecutors laid out alleged links to Muammar Gaddafi as Sarkozy and aides struck a 2005 deal to illegally fund his 2007 presidential campaign.
- After a decade-long investigation, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Nicolas Sarkozy on September 25, 2025, with presiding judge Nathalie Gavarino calling the offences of `exceptional gravity` and ordering immediate incarceration.
- The appeals process allows judges up to two months to consider release petitions, and the Paris appeals court may take up to 18 months to organise a new trial while Sarkozy remains in custody.
- Sarkozy's incarceration is historic as the first postwar French leader jailed; threats to judge Nathalie Gavarino prompted President Emmanuel Macron to call them `unacceptable`, and Louis Sarkozy urged support on Oct 21.
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Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
PARIS - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, set to start a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday after being convicted of attempting to raise campaign funds from Libya in 2007, said he is not afraid of going to jail, La Tribune Dimanche reported. Read more at straitstimes.com.
He will become the first former President of the history of the Republic and former Head of State of the European Union to sleep behind bars: Nicolas Sarkozy must be imprisoned, this Tuesday morning, at the Paris Health Prison, almost a month after his conviction to five years in prison in the Libyan trial.
DECRYPTAGE - A few days before the former head of state was imprisoned, the Chancellery did not hide that his safety was a concern.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to go to prison on October 21st to face trial for conspiring to receive funding from Libya for his 2007 election campaign.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is due to enter La Santé prison next Tuesday to serve the five-year sentence imposed on him for the...
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