Overview
- RTL reports he will be processed into La Santé prison’s unit for vulnerable inmates to ensure his safety.
- On September 25, the Paris court sentenced him to five years in prison and imposed a €100,000 fine.
- Judges acquitted him of passive corruption and concealment of embezzled public funds, and they did not establish illegal financing of the 2007 campaign.
- His lawyers can seek release in the appeals court, which has up to two months to rule on such a request, and RTL says a favorable decision could free him before Christmas.
- The probe began in 2012 after Mediapart’s publication on alleged Libyan funding, with key witness Ziad Takieddine later retracting his 2016 cash-delivery claims in 2020.