Overview

• The meeting took place last Friday at the Élysée Palace and lasted about an hour, according to Le Figaro.
• Le Figaro, citing anonymous sources, says Emmanuel Macron offered Nicolas Sarkozy personal support while remaining publicly silent on the verdict.
• During the conversation, Macron reportedly questioned the use of pretrial detention and the impact of incarceration on electoral participation without referencing Sarkozy’s case directly.
• A Paris court on September 25 sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign.
• BFMTV reports Sarkozy is due to begin serving his sentence on October 21 in a single cell at La Santé prison, and his son Louis has called for a demonstration that day.