Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from jail today after his lawyers appealed his conviction for being part of a criminal conspiracy to seek election funding from Libya. The former French president was found guilty of seeking funding for his successful election campaign from Muammar Gaddafi, the late dictator of Libya, and sentenced to five years. Sarkozy, 70, who was president from 2007 to 2012, entered La Santé prison in Paris on Oct 21 as the first former head of an EU state to be incarcerated. A Paris court ruled on Monday that he could be freed immediately, pending an appeal....
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