Overview
- Europe 1 published exclusive extracts four days before the book reaches stores, as Le Figaro ran an interview and early passages.
- The 213-page first-person account details a 12 m² cell, 23-hour daily confinement, prayer from day one, recurring talks with the prison chaplain, and a sparse diet of dairy and cereal bars.
- Sarkozy presents the detention as wrongful and repeatedly maintains his innocence.
- An excerpt describes two LFI lawmakers arriving with press to try to see and photograph him, after which he remained in his cell on his lawyer’s advice.
- AFP reports the book follows his September first-instance conviction to five years in the Libya case, now under appeal with hearings scheduled from March 16 to June 3, and it is being published by Fayard.