Sarkozy will go to prison on October 21
The former French president was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to buy money in Libya for the election campaign.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be imprisoned in La Sante (Paris) on October 21. 2007 The judges sentenced him in September to five years in prison for trying to get money in Libya for his presidential campaign.
Sarkozy visited the offices of the National Prosecutor's Office on Monday to learn about the date and place of his imprisonment.
He will be the first former French head of state to go to prison. He has always defended his innocence, but the judges found him guilty of criminal conspiracy. They found it proven that his closest collaborators tried to get money for the 2007 election campaign from the Libyan government, with the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi in power.
Sarkozy has been convicted for the third time on fraud charges.
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