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Sophia Khatsenkova

Former president behind bars: France grapples with Sarkozy’s five-year prison term

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first head of state in the history of the European Union to be imprisoned.

The 70-year-old went to La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday morning to begin serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy linked to the Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.

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