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Sarkozy’s Lawyers to Seek Shorter Jail Term

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September 26, 2025
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Former French President Found Guilty Of Criminal Association

Lawyers for the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy have said they will try to ensure he serves as little time in prison as possible, after he was sentenced to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to get election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Sarkozy’s lawyer, Jean-Michel Darrois, told a news channel on Friday after he became the first French President to go to jail, “We’re going to make sure that his incarceration will be as short as possible.”

Sarkozy, who was President from 2007 to 2012, has lodged an appeal against his conviction, but a special provision by judges means he must begin a jail term in the coming weeks, while any appeal process goes ahead.

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The public prosecutor, who had accused Sarkozy in court of entering into a “Faustian pact of corruption with one of the most unspeakable dictators of the last 30 years” to gain election funding from Gaddafi, had recommended at the end of the trial a seven-year prison sentence.

Judges on Thursday instead sentenced Sarkozy to five years, but with a special provision that the jail term would start in the coming weeks, despite any appeals process.

Henri Guaino, a Sarkozy ally who once served as his special adviser, told a radio channel that the former President’s conviction was “a humiliation for the state and its institutions” and urged the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to pardon Sarkozy so he could avoid prison. Macron has not commented on the conviction and sentence.

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In an editorial, the conservative French daily Le Figaro denounced the court ruling as “absurd and incomprehensible.”

However, other commentators said politicians of all parties and backgrounds had been sentenced in criminal courts in France, such as the Socialist minister Jérôme Cahuzac who had led François Hollande’s drive for a more honest tax system, but was convicted for tax fraud and secretly stashing his wealth in tax havens around the world.

Le Monde said that Sarkozy’s conviction and sentence showed “nobody is above the law.”

Senior figures in Sarkozy’s rightwing Les Républicains party have sent messages of public support but amid rising distrust of the political class have stopped short of calling for a pardon.

The Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, who heads the party, expressed his “full support and friendship”, adding he had no doubt Sarkozy would devote all his energy to defending himself on appeal.

Sarkozy To Be Told Date Of Incarceration

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Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy, 70, has an appointment with the state prosecutor on 13 October when he will be told the date of his incarceration, which could be as early as October or November.

French media speculated that he would probably be imprisoned in La Santé prison in the south of Paris in an individual cell but mixing with other prisoners in the courtyard and common areas.

A prison officer said typically prisoners at the facility were in their cells 23 hours a day.Like any other prisoner, once Sarkozy enters jail, his lawyers will be able to petition for his release or for him to serve his term in a different way, such as with an electronic bracelet. That request would have to be heard by a judge.

France’s biggest magistrates’ union said that for prison sentences of five years or more, more than 80% of French people who are convicted go straight to jail, so Sarkozy was not being treated any differently.

Despite multiple legal scandals that have clouded his presidential legacy, Sarkozy remains an influential figure in right-wing politics in France and in entertainment circles, by virtue of his marriage to Bruni-Sarkozy.

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