Overview

• Judicial sources told AFP that the former French president, 70, will begin serving time at La Santé prison in southern Paris.
• The conviction arises from the Bygmalion affair, which involved falsified invoices to hide overspending in the 2007 presidential campaign.
• Courts have confirmed the five-year term and determined that part of the sentence must be served in prison.
• Sarkozy’s legal team says it will lodge a last challenge with the European Court of Human Rights.
• He would be the first postwar French ex-head of state, and the first from a European Union member country, to be incarcerated.