"The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to go to jail in Paris next week after a court last month sentenced him to five months in prison for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, who was the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, was summoned to meet state prosecutors on Monday."
"He had already become the first former French head of state forced to wear an electronic tag after being convicted in a separate case of corruption and influence peddling over illegal attempts to secure favours from a judge. In that case, he was given a one-year-jail term but was able to serve it with an electronic tag worn around the ankle. He wore the tag for three months before being granted conditional release."
Nicolas Sarkozy was ordered to begin a five-month jail sentence in Paris for criminal conspiracy linked to alleged campaign funding from Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan regime. He was summoned by state prosecutors and must present himself at La Sante prison on 21 October. At 70, he will be the first French postwar leader to go to jail. He previously wore an electronic tag after conviction in a separate corruption case, serving three months before conditional release. Sarkozy has appealed and a new trial is expected in about six months, but the sentence requires incarceration while appeals proceed. He reportedly hosted a farewell gathering and said he would seek no advantages in prison.
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