Imprisoned on October 21, the former President of the Republic was released on November 10. His book about his detention will be published by Éditions Fayard.
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Testimony about the unprecedented detention of the former French president. Nicolas Sarkozy announced the launch of his new book on December 10, Diary of a Prisonerin a message published on Friday X November 21. It will be published by Fayard, controlled by ultraconservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré. “In prison, there is nothing to see, and nothing to do. I forgot the silence that does not exist in Santé where there is so much to hear. Unfortunately, the noise there is constant. Like a desert, the inner life is amplified in prison”wrote the former president, who was jailed three weeks after he was found guilty at trial over financing the 2007 Libyan campaign.
On September 25, the former head of state, now 70 years old, was sentenced in the first instance to five years in prison on a warrant of detention accompanied by provisional execution for criminal conspiracy, and a fine of 100,000 euros. He immediately appealed and will be tried again from March 16 to June 3 by the Paris Court of Appeal.
A Paris criminal court found him guilty of deliberately allowing his collaborators to get close to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to seek hidden funding for his victorious presidential campaign in 2007. The man who had proclaimed his innocence from the start of the affair was jailed for three weeks in Health prison, a detention that sparked heated debate.
Jailed on October 21, Nicolas Sarkozy was acquitted on November 10 by the Paris Court of Appeal, which deemed that he did not pose a flight risk and placed him under judicial supervision. For judges, a temporary execution order is justified by the judge “Amazing Gravity” fact. For Nicolas Sarkozy, he is motivated by “hate”.
