Overview
- Sarkozy’s Diary of a Prisoner details 20 days in solitary at Paris’s La Santé, which he depicts as an all‑grey world marked by “inhuman violence.”
- He remains free under judicial supervision while appealing a five‑year sentence for criminal association tied to alleged Libyan funding of his 2007 campaign.
- A separate conviction for overspending in his 2012 reelection bid carries a one‑year term, half suspended, to be served at home under electronic monitoring.
- The book discloses a phone call with Marine Le Pen and argues that National Rally is “not a danger for the Republic,” urging Republicans to win over its voters.
- Sarkozy writes that he lost trust in President Emmanuel Macron over the loss of his Legion of Honor, noting he declined an offered prison transfer as police guarded a neighboring cell.