US EditionThe Luxury of French Prisons
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The luxury of French prisons
Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of the French Republic, has been convicted and sentenced to five years for a ‘criminal conspiracy tied to alleged Libyan funding of his successful 2007 presidential campaign’. For those of us more familiar with Anglo-Saxon criminal law, there’s much to be confused by. France, like many ‘Napoleonic’ legal systems, draws no
None of the 75 professionals interviewed in the Senate found fault with the provisional execution, yet described as an infringement of the rule of law by the former president.
On Thursday 25 September, Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal association in the corruption case with Muammar Gaddafi. So the former head of state was sentenced to five years in prison. In a few days, Carla Bruni's husband will sleep behind bars. But the conditions of his detention are intriguing. Will he really be in a special cell, or will he be treated like the other detainees? Ingrid, overseer at the health prison, invited to the TB…
Nicolas Sarkozy has just been sentenced to five years in prison in the Libyan financing case. His next prison is asking many questions. Many ask themselves, among other things, what his daily life will really look like behind bars. A prison monitor from the health prison was invited on the program Très belle nouvelles broadcast last night on W9. She provided some elements of an answer. On 25 September 2025, the former President of the Republic w…
Judged guilty of criminal association, the former president will go to prison. But he does not give up, he wants to live as if nothing were happening and mobilizes his own.
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