Overview
- The former president entered custody Tuesday after a five‑year sentence in the Libya case was ordered with immediate detention despite his appeal.
- Prison officials confirmed he is held in the Santé’s isolation unit, alone in a cell with strictly individual access to yard and activity spaces.
- Interior minister Laurent Nuñez said two police officers are stationed in a nearby cell to protect him, a measure condemned by the Ufap‑Unsa‑Justice prison staff union.
- His legal team filed an urgent release request that the Paris appeals court must rule on within a maximum of two months, with a decision expected sooner.
- Institutional tensions persist as the top prosecutor warned a Justice minister’s planned prison visit could be seen as pressure and a poll found three in four French view him as a justiciable like any other with most opposing such a visit.