Defiant former French president Sarkozy arrives at prison to begin sentence

Defiant former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a five-year sentence.

In September, he was convicted for conspiring to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya.

Sarkozy, who was the conservative president of France between 2007 and 2012, is the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned.

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