"On the morning of May 13, 1993, a man dressed in black and rigged with explosives entered a daycare center in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a wealthy suburb of Paris, and took 20 children and their teacher hostage. In exchange for their release, the kidnapper demanded 100 million francs (about $17 million). But the town's mayor, a young and ambitious politician named Nicolas Sarkozy, decided to ignore the police's advice and go in to negotiate with the abductor."
"A cocktail that now taints his legacy as president of France and leaves another photo, 32 years later: that of the first president of the Fifth Republic entering prison. If they absolutely want me to sleep in jail, I will sleep in jail, but with my head held high, he warned his fans and his critics still in the courtroom that on Thursday sentenced him to five years in prison and a 100,000 fine for criminal conspiracy in the trial over"
On May 13, 1993 a man dressed in black took 20 children and their teacher hostage at a Neuilly-sur-Seine daycare, and Mayor Nicolas Sarkozy went in to negotiate, emerging with one child and an iconic photograph. Sarkozy built a rapid political rise by captivating Gaullist youth, serving as mayor and minister, and reaching the presidency in 2007 at age 52. He cultivated close ties to businessmen and promised to modernize France. He was later convicted and sentenced to five years in prison and fined €100,000 for criminal conspiracy over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign. He was stripped of the Legion of Honor.
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