Overview
- Publisher Fayard announced the 216-page book, titled "Tagebuch eines Häftlings" (Diary of a Prisoner), will be published on December 10.
- Sarkozy wrote on X that there is "nothing to see and nothing to do" in prison and that the "inner life is strengthened" during confinement.
- A Paris court in late September convicted him of forming a criminal organization tied to alleged Libyan funding for his 2007 campaign and imposed a five-year term, which he denies and has appealed.
- He was taken into custody on October 21 and spent about 20 days in a nine-square-meter cell at La Santé without contact with other inmates under heightened security.
- An appeals court granted early release on November 10 with an electronic ankle monitor, regular police check-ins, a ban on contacting Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, and a travel restriction, with appellate hearings scheduled between March 16 and June 3 and a separate ruling in a 2012 case due on November 26.