Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began serving a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at La Santé prison in Paris after being convicted of conspiring to receive funds from Libya to finance his election campaign. He becomes the first French president to be jailed since World War II.

Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012, faced years of legal battles over allegations that his 2007 campaign received millions of euros in cash from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.