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Two police officers have moved into the prison cell next door to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy follow threats to kill him, it has emerged.
The dramatic development followed the 70-year-old spending a ‘frightening’ first night in La Santé, the high-security jail in Paris.
He was incarcerated on Tuesday, following a five-year sentence for conspiring to accept laundered cash from the late Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Within hours, a video appeared online in which a fellow inmate shouts: “We know everything, Sarko… we know everything.
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