Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from jail and returned home after his lawyers appealed against his conviction for being part of a criminal conspiracy to seek election funding from Libya.
The 70-year-old former president was freed from La Sante prison in Paris shortly before 3pm and departed in a car with tinted windows, escorted by police motorcyclists.
Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, had been found guilty of seeking funding for his successful election campaign from Muammar Gaddafi, the late dictator of Libya, and sentenced to five years.
He entered La Santé prison in Paris on Oct 21 as the first former head of an EU state to be incarcerated.
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