Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is set to begin a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday for conspiring to raise illegal campaign funds from Libya — a dramatic fall from grace for a leader once known for his charisma and global stature.

Sarkozy, who was the conservative president of France between 2007 and 2012, will become the first former French leader to be jailed since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain after World War Two.

“I’m not afraid of prison. I’ll keep my head held high, including at the prison gates,” Sarkozy told La Tribune Dimanche newspaper ahead of his incarceration.

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The conviction caps years of legal battles over allegations that his 2007 campaign took millions in cash from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was

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