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Published on 2025-10-22 06:20:35
Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first former French president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
No French ex-leader has gone to jail since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945.
Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison, where he will occupy a small cell in the…
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