{"id":15811,"date":"2025-10-21T17:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:53:01","slug":"frances-former-president-nicolas-sarkozy-has-arrived-at-a-prison-in-paris-to-start-serving-a-five-year-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/frances-former-president-nicolas-sarkozy-has-arrived-at-a-prison-in-paris-to-start-serving-a-five-year-jail-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived at a prison in Paris to start serving a five-year jail sentence."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 70-year-old leader arrived at La Sante prison in a police car on Tuesday morning, becoming the first former head of an European Union state to be jailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarkozy was sentenced to five years after being found guilty last month<\/a> of criminal conspiracy<\/a>, due to having accepted millions of euros in illegal payments from the late Libyan ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, to fund his 2007 election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has always denied the charges. His lawyers said as he arrived to start his sentence that a request for release had been immediately filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt is not a former president of the republic being jailed this morning, but an innocent man,\u201d he said on X on his way to prison. \u201cTruth will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of supporters and family members had stood outside Sarkozy\u2019s home from early Tuesday, some holding up framed portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFree Nicolas,\u201d they shouted as he departed to head to the jail. Earlier, they had sung the French national anthem, as neighbours looked on from their balconies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is truly a sad day for France and for democracy,\u201d said Flora Amanou, 41, who came to show her support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarkozy is the first French leader to be imprisoned since Philippe Petain, the Nazi collaborationist head of state, who was jailed after World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told Le Figaro newspaper he will be taking with him a biography of Jesus and a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo, a novel in which an innocent man is sentenced to jail but escapes to take revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is likely to be held in a nine-square-metre (95-square-foot) cell in the prison\u2019s solitary confinement wing, prison staff told the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a security measure, meaning he will avoid contact with other prisoners, according to staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In solitary confinement, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for one walk a day, alone, in a small yard. Sarkozy will also be allowed visits three times a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unclear how long he will remain in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presiding judge Nathalie Gavarino said during sentencing that the offences were of \u201cexceptional gravity\u201d, and therefore ordered Sarkozy to be jailed even if he filed an appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court has two months to examine the release appeal lodged by his lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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