Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first head of state in the history of the European Union to be imprisoned.
The 70-year-old went to La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday morning to begin serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy linked to the Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.
Sarkozy left his home in the French capital around 9:15 am CEST, hand in hand with his wife, singer and former model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
The couple embraced before he entered a police vehicle that drove him directly to the gates of the only prison in Paris, where he is to be
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