Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began serving a five-year sentence at La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday.
Sarkozy, who led the country between 2007 and 2012, was convicted in late September of criminal conspiracy over a plan for late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to fund his electoral campaign. He becomes the first former French leader to be jailed since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Pétain after World War II.
