The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to begin serving his prison sentence in Paris next week, following a court verdict last month sentencing him to five years in prison. T he Correctional Tribunal of Paris found Sarkozy guilty of a criminal association with an organized scheme to illegally finance his 2007 presidential election campaign.

The 70-year-old, who used to be the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, will be the first former head of a European Union country to go to jail. Previously, he had already been the first convicted former French head of state to wear an electronic tag following a separate case of corruption over illegal attempts to secure favors from a judge. He is likely to be held in the Paris La Santé prison’s special wing fo

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