PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will serve jail time at a Paris prison from October 21, informed sources told AFP Monday, after a court last month sentenced him to five years behind bars for criminal conspiracy. The 70-year-old, who will be the first French postwar leader and the first former head of a European Union country to go to jail, will serve time at the La Sante prison in Paris, they said. Sarkozy, France’s leader from 2007 to 2012, was convicted in late September over a scheme for late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi to fund his 2007 presidential run.

PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to learn Monday when and where he will serve time in prison for criminal conspiracy for a scheme to use funds from Libya to…

The former French president will learn on Monday when and where he will serve his prison sentence for his conviction of criminal conspiracy in the Libyan campaign financing case.