Overview
- The former French president entered custody in Paris on Tuesday, becoming the first ex-head of state since World War II to be jailed in France.
- He is being held in an isolated section of La Santé rather than a unit for vulnerable inmates, according to BFMTV reporting.
- The court said the appeal does not suspend imprisonment because of the extreme gravity of the acts found by judges.
- His lawyers plan to seek provisional release immediately, and the request must be decided within a statutory period of up to two months.
- President Emmanuel Macron confirmed he received Sarkozy at the Élysée on October 17 and publicly defended judicial independence after Sarkozy denounced the ruling as an “unbearable injustice.”