Overview
- Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said two officers from the presidential protection service are stationed in neighbouring cells to protect Nicolas Sarkozy.
- A video circulating online appeared to show an inmate threatening Sarkozy; the Paris prosecutor questioned three inmates and seized two mobile phones.
- Sarkozy began serving a five-year sentence at La Santé after a conviction for criminal association in the Libyan funding case, with judges not finding he personally received Libyan cash.
- He is held in the prison’s isolation unit with controlled visits and restricted out-of-cell time, and prison unions have objected to police being posted inside the facility.
- His legal team filed for release pending appeal, saying a judge could review the request in about a month and expressing hope for a decision before Christmas.