00:00Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday, where he will serve a five-year sentence.
00:09He is the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned.
00:14The judge ruled the former French leader would start his prison sentence without waiting for his appeal to be heard,
00:20citing the seriousness of the disruption to public order caused by the offense.
00:25And if they want absolutely that I sleep in prison, I will sleep in prison.
00:33But my head is high. I am innocent.
00:38In September, a Paris court found Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy involving the use of funds from Libya to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.
00:49He is expected to be held either in solitary confinement or in a prisoner's section for vulnerable inmates, also known as the so-called VIP section.
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