Overview
- Sarkozy’s 213-page Journal d’un prisonnier is released today, with a public reading and signing scheduled in Paris.
- In the book he argues that his party should work with the Rassemblement National, writing that the RN poses no danger to France.
- He recounts a phone call from Marine Le Pen during his incarceration and notes supportive letters from RN vice president Sébastien Chenu.
- The former president served roughly three weeks in La Santé prison and is now on conditional release with an electronic ankle monitor while his appeal is set for spring.
- He was sentenced to five years in the Libyan campaign-finance affair and was also recently convicted in a separate illegal campaign-financing case.