Nicolas Sarkozy will begin a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a campaign financing scandal on Tuesday, while launching an appeal over his conviction.
Sarkozy, 70, will become the first former French president to serve time in jail, in a case that has sparked shockwaves in France owing to judges’ unusual decision to jail him before all appeals had been exhausted.
The case centres on accusations Sarkozy and two aides took millions from late Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi to fund his 2007 presidential campaign. Judges cleared the rightwing politician of several more serious charges of embezzlement and illegal campaign financing.
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