20.10.2025 18:44
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will enter prison tomorrow due to a 5-year sentence for forming a criminal organization in the 'Libya case.' Sarkozy will be held in a 11-square-meter cell with a window at La Santé Prison in Paris.
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It has been reported that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will enter prison tomorrow due to his 5-year prison sentence for forming a criminal organization as part of the corruption investigation known as the 'Libya case'.
SARKOZY ENTERS PRISON TOMORROW The French press announced that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who went to the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) on October 13 to learn the details of the prison and date he will be imprisoned, will enter La Sante Prison in the capital Paris tomorrow at 09:30 local time.
HE WILL STAY IN A CELL WITH A WINDOW Sarkozy, who will enter prison due to his 5-year prison sentence for forming a criminal organization as part of the corruption investigation known as the 'Libya case', is reported to be held in a 11 square meter cell with a window.
WHO IS NICOLAS SARKOZY? He was born on January 28, 1955, in Paris. His father, Pál Sárközy de Nagybocsa (in Hungarian: Nagybocsai Sárközy Pál), is Hungarian, and his maternal grandfather, Benico Mallah (real name: Aron Mallah), descends from Sephardic Jews who sought refuge from Spain to the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages. He served as Minister of Budget and government spokesperson in the Édouard Balladur Government.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy In the 1995 French presidential elections, he supported Édouard Balladur and took on the role of campaign spokesperson. Serving as Minister of the Interior and the second-in-command of the government in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's first government (2002-2004) and the Dominique de Villepin Government (2005-2007), Sarkozy became Minister of Finance in the 3rd Jean-Pierre Raffarin Government in 2004.
PRESIDENCY FROM 2007 TO 2012 He was elected President on May 16, 2007, succeeding Jacques Chirac. President Sarkozy married former Italian model Carla Bruni in his third marriage on February 2, 2008. He has clearly expressed that he is not in favor of Turkey's accession to the European Union.
The Law on the Punishment of Denial of the Armenian Genocide, which he passed in the Senate in 2012, was annulled by the French Constitutional Council. Among the 10 candidates participating in the first round of the presidential elections held on April 21-22, 2012, he advanced to the second round with 27.18% of the votes, following Socialist Party candidate François Hollande, who received 28.63% of the votes. In the second round held on May 5-6, 2012, he lost the presidential election to Socialist Party candidate François Hollande, who received 51.9% of the votes.
After his presidential term ended, he began serving as a member of the Constitutional Council but resigned from his position due to irregularities in the 2012 presidential election campaign. On November 29, 2014, he was elected as the chairman of the UMP.
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