Overview
- France's interior minister said two security officers are stationed in a neighbouring cell to protect Nicolas Sarkozy inside La Santé prison.
- Sarkozy's lawyers filed an immediate request for release pending appeal, with one attorney saying he is likely to remain in custody for at least several weeks.
- A Paris court imposed a five-year sentence for criminal association tied to the 2007 campaign, while acquitting him of personally receiving or using Libyan funds.
- Prison officials placed the former president in the isolation wing in a small individual cell with limited exercise and regulated visits; his wife and a lawyer saw him on day one.
- Sarkozy proclaims his innocence and becomes the first French ex-leader jailed since Philippe Pétain, and the first former head of an EU member state to be imprisoned.