Paris —
Twenty days, 213 pages.
For every 24 hours behind bars, Nicolas Sarkozy wrote more than 10 pages of his new book recounting his stint in Paris’ La Santé Prison.
“It could have been a budget hotel, if you ignored the armored door with its eyehole,” the former French president recalls in the book, which hit shelves Wednesday, one month after he left jail on November 10.
Prison was “hell,” Sarkozy writes in “Diary of a Prisoner,” which rides the waves of intense public interest and scrutiny around his September conviction for criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya.
He was released early from his five-year sentence in November pending his appeal.
The view out of his window was blocked by plastic panels, Sarkozy says of his time incarcerated, adding that it was impossible to see the sky or even tell the weather.
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