{"id":288835,"date":"2025-10-21T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/french-ex-president-nicolas-sarkozy-goes-to-jail-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:05:08","slug":"french-ex-president-nicolas-sarkozy-goes-to-jail-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/french-ex-president-nicolas-sarkozy-goes-to-jail-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy goes to jail | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/IEWMOqQs2pU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy goes to jail | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IEWMOqQs2pU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n<p>Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe P\u00e9tain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy, who was president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Sant\u00e9 prison, where he will occupy a cell roughly measuring 9 sq m (95 sq ft) in the jail&#8217;s isolation wing.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#France #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. 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