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Nicolas Sarkozy this Tuesday becomes the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned as he begins a five-year sentence in Paris’ La Santé prison for criminal conspiracy in an attempt to use Libyan money to finance his 2007 election campaign.
The right-wing president of France between 2007 and 2012, Sarkozy has always maintained his innocence but will, in any case, serve his sentence in a prison that has housed some of the most well-known prisoners since the 1800s.
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