{"id":138263,"date":"2025-10-22T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138263\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:34:07","slug":"sarkozy-being-protected-by-security-guards-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138263\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy being protected by security guards in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s interior minister has confirmed that former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/europe\/2025\/1021\/1539688-nicolas-sarkozy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nicolas Sarkozy would be protected by two security officers while serving jail time <\/a>in a criminal conspiracy case involving Libya.<\/p>\n<p>The former head of state would usually benefit from &#8220;a protection arrangement given his status and the threats against him&#8221;, an arrangement that &#8220;has indeed been maintained in detention&#8221;, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told local media.<\/p>\n<p>Two security officers are stationed in a neighbouring cell in La Sante prison in Paris, where Sarkozy was incarcerated yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old &#8211; president of France from May 2007 to May 2012 &#8211; was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Libya for the campaign that saw him elected.<\/p>\n<p>He was handed a five-year prison term for criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy was expected to be held in the prison&#8217;s solitary confinement wing to avoid contact with other prisoners, prison staff said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" A general view shows the La Sante Prison in paris\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00235ae1-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nNicolas Sarkozy was incarcerated at La Sante prison in Paris<\/p>\n<p>In solitary confinement, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for one walk a day, alone, in a small yard.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy will also be allowed visits three times a week.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy is the first former head of a European Union state to be jailed.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first French leader to be incarcerated since Philippe Petain, the Nazi collaborationist head of state who was jailed after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>He has faced a flurry of legal woes since losing his re-election bid in 2012, already being convicted in two other cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s interior minister has confirmed that former president Nicolas Sarkozy would be protected by two security officers while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-138263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}