It might have been more dramatic episodes of “Engrenages” (Spiral) the heady hit French TV drama about power, corruption and high politics among the Vuitton-clad Elysee classes. Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s Conservative president from 2007-2012 has spent his first days in jail, beginning a theoretical five-year sentence after being found guilty of illegally seeking Libyan funding via proxies for his victorious 2007 election campaign.
It is the second guilty verdict imposed by the courts on a flamboyant veteran, who keeps ending up in judicial hot water - he has been denied appeal on the grounds of attempting to bribe a judge for information in a separate funding case. Twice looks unlucky. This time, his appeal will be from behind bars.
