He had a meeting with the French president at the Elysee Palace last Friday 17/10, who is expected in Paris tomorrow, Tuesday 21/10.
“It was normal, on a personal level, to host one of my predecessors in this context,” Macron told reporters during a trip to Slovenia. As he said the visit was not aimed at violating the independence of the French judiciary.
We remind you that Sarkozy will be the first French leader to be imprisoned since Philippe Petain, the head of the Vichy regime who collaborated with the Nazis, who was imprisoned after World War II. He will enter the for participation in a criminal conspiracy with Libya, aimed at the illegal financing of his election campaign, in 2007 by Muammar Gaddafi.
According to prison sources, he is likely to be kept in one of the isolated nine square meter cells so that he does not have contact with other inmates. It is unclear how long Sarkozy will remain in prison.
