PNN – The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will go to prison on Tuesday after being convicted in a case involving receiving aid and funding from the former Libyan government.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing France 24, Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was found guilty of receiving financial aid from Libya to finance his 2007 presidential campaign, will go to prison on Tuesday. Sarkozy will be the first former leader of a European Union country to spend time behind bars.
Sarkozy, the former right-wing president of France from 2007 to 2012, was found guilty in late September of criminal conspiracy in the case of receiving financial assistance from former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election campaign and sentenced to five years in prison.
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The ruling relates to a case in which Sarkozy is accused of illegally receiving millions of euros from Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election campaign. According to France 24, French prosecutors say Sarkozy is accused of promising Gaddafi that he would help him improve his image in the eyes of Western countries in exchange for financial support.
The former French president, who has protested the verdict and described it as “unjust”, will serve his sentence at La Santé penitentiary in Paris.
Sarkozy is the first imprisoned French leader since Philippe Pétain, the head of the Vichy French government, who was sentenced to life in prison after World War II for collaborating with the Nazis and treason.
According to AFP, citing a prison employee, Sarkozy will likely be held in a 9-square-meter cell in solitary confinement.