00:00Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy waves to his supporters from his car window in a grand
00:09convoy. But this time, it's not for a presidential visit or a public event. It's to go to prison.
00:17Sarkozy left his home today hand in hand with his wife, singer Carla Bruni, as crowds sang the
00:24French national anthem and called for his release after he was sentenced to five years in prison.
00:30He thus becomes the first former president in the European Union to serve time behind bars.
00:36At 70 years old, Sarkozy was convicted of seeking campaign funding from Libya for his 2007 presidential
00:45bid, charges he firmly denies, maintaining his innocence. As for his imprisonment conditions,
00:54reports suggest he will be placed in a nine square meter cell in the solitary confinement
01:00wing of Paris' La Santé prison, where inmates are allowed outside once a day in a small
01:07courtyard. When sentenced last September, Sarkozy said, if they want me to sleep in prison,
01:14prison, then I will sleep in prison. But with my head held high.
01:18He's also appointed by the owner of the South, the main school of the Loserans.
01:24His age of 18 years old, his group called for in a long entire hour of жить in prison.
01:28This is his age of 19. He was始mated in prison. He wasLED, he was sentenced to 15 months
01:32to 16 months. He was sentenced to 16 months, he was sentenced to 16 months. He was sentenced to 16 months
01:36to 26 months. He was sentenced to 16 months. He was sentenced to 16 months. He was sentenced to 16 months.
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