Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will serve his three-year prison sentence at home under electronic monitoring.
Sputnik reported today that despite the sentence, Sarkozy will not be sent to prison but will be able to spend one year of his sentence at home with electronic surveillance, as this penalty is typically applied in France for sentences longer than two years. The Paris court convicted Sarkozy on Monday of corruption and influence peddling in the so-called "wiretap case," sentencing him to three years in prison, one of which is to be served in full. The "wiretap case," which dates back to 2014, was deliberated from late November to early December of the previous year. The financial prosecution sought a four-year sentence for the 66-year-old politician, two of which were requested to be suspended. Sarkozy has repeatedly denied the charges against him and stated during the trial, "He has never committed any act of corruption or used his official position." Nicolas Sarkozy has become the second former French president to be tried under the Fifth Republic, following the late President Jacques Chirac, in a case that has drawn widespread attention in French political circles known as the "wiretap case."
