
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will head to a Paris prison next week, where he will begin an unprecedented five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise 2007 election campaign funds from Libya, RTL reported on Monday.
RTL reported that Sarkozy would be sent to Paris’ Sante prison on October 21.
The Paris financial prosecutor’s office said it could neither confirm nor deny the RTL report. Sarkozy’s lawyers