Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began his five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy on October 21, 2025.

The former president has already been convicted in a separate corruption case, in which he was found guilty of trying to obtain confidential information from a judge in return for career favours, ser...

“I’m not afraid of prison. I’ll hold my head high, including in front of the doors of La Santé,” Sarkozy told La Tribune Dimanche newspaper on Saturday.