Overview

• Nicolas Sarkozy will report to La Santé prison in Paris on October 21 to begin a five-year sentence ordered with immediate enforcement despite his pending appeal.
• Prison authorities have recommended isolation and tightly managed movements for security, with placement expected in a single cell within the isolation wing.
• His lawyers will file a request for release immediately after his incarceration, and the appeal court has up to two months to rule.
• The judgment imposed five years’ ineligibility for public office, yet Accor, Lagardère and LOV Group say he will keep his directorships, with Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin holding his proxy for the October 23 board meeting.
• His sons have called a support rally for Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. near the family residence in the 16th arrondissement, at the corner of rue Pierre-Guérin and rue de la Source.