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France’s Sarkozy given 5-year sentence, must go to prison
France’s Sarkozy given 5-year sentence, must go to prison
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty over accusations the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi helped fund his 2007 presidential run.
Should Nicolas Sarkozy go to prison, he will be the first president in the history of modern France to be jailed. (AFP pic)
PARIS: Former president Nicolas Sarkozy was on Thursday set to become France’s first postwar leader to go to prison after a court jailed him for five years over a scheme for the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his victorious 2007 presidential run.
The court convicted him on charges of criminal conspiracy, although it acquitted him of corruption and personally accepting illegal campaign financing.
The court ordered that Sarkozy should be placed in custody at a later date, with prosecutors given one month to inform the former head of state when he should go to prison.
