Overview
- Europe 1, Le Figaro and TF1/LCI published early passages from Le Journal d’un prisonnier, a 216-page Fayard title due in bookstores on Dec. 10.
- Sarkozy describes a colorless confinement at La Santé with 23-hour lockup, a frugal diet and prayers with the prison chaplain, after roughly 20 days in custody before his Nov. 10 release under strict judicial control.
- He says he wrote the manuscript by hand with a Bic on a small plywood table, passed pages to his lawyers to be typed and completed the book shortly after leaving prison.
- The account doubles as a defense of his innocence and includes barbed political notes, alleging Emmanuel Macron looked away from his conviction and condemning a visit by two LFI deputies.
- In a newly reported passage, he recounts telling Marine Le Pen he would not join any 'republican front' against the RN and urges a broad, non-anathematizing path for the right.