According to judicial sources citing several media media in Francethe Nicolas Sarkozy He was summoned to the National Financial Financier on Monday (13.10.2025) to determine the details of his imprisonment.
THE Nicolas Sarkozy at 13:45 and left forty minutes later, without making statements. Neither his lawyer, Christopher Engren, nor the prosecution wanted to comment. The 70 -year -old former French president was sentenced to five years in prison on September 25, of which the execution is directly, for his role in the illegal funding of his pre -election campaign in 2007 by the Muammar Gaddafi regime.
The court justified the strict sentence by citing ‘Excellent seriousness of actions“, Committed by a candidate who sought the supreme state position of the French Republic.
In spite of his appeal, Sarkozy will be imprisonedas a detention order has been issued against him with detention power and immediate execution.
He will be held in the Santé prison in the 14th district of Paris, which has a special wing for public figures, where prisoners do not come into contact with other prisoners.
After his arrival, the former president will be able to request an alternative sentence in the form of home restraint with an electronic bracelet.
Unlike the other two convicts in the same case, Alexander Tzouri and Wahib Nasser, Sarkozy secured a deadline before his detention due to his former presidential office and cooperation with justice.
This is the first time in the history of the fifth French Republic that a former president will be brought to prison for a corruption and illegal political money – an unprecedented event in French political and judicial history.