Overview

• He is due to report to La Santé prison in Paris on October 21 and is expected to be held alone in a secure wing for safety, according to prison sources.
• Sarkozy has appealed his conviction, and his lawyers plan to seek his release upon arrival as an appeals court reviews the request within two months.
• The court found him guilty of criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain Libyan funding for his 2007 campaign, acquitted him on other corruption and financing counts, and imposed a €100,000 fine.
• The ruling makes him poised to become the first former head of an EU country to serve time in prison and the first French leader jailed since Philippe Pétain.
• He said he is not afraid of prison, will not ask for special treatment, and plans to write a book while incarcerated.