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Namibia: French ex-president Sarkozy goes to jail for campaign finance conspiracy – News

Namibia: French ex-president Sarkozy goes to jail for campaign finance conspiracy – News

Africa Links 24 with Paul Kirby
Published on 2025-10-21 11:18:08

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-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.

Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind bars.

Sarkozy, who was president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison, where he will occupy a small cell in the…

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