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.

French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate of the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in his prison cell in La Santé in 2022. The 76-year-old had been held there for over a year as he was investigated on suspicion of the rape and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. He had denied any wrongdoing.

A Paris court granted former French President Nicolas Sarkozy early release from jail on Monday, pending an appeal, just weeks after he started a five-year sentence for conspiring to raise campaign fu

El expresidente francés Nicolas Sarkozy será liberado de prisión bajo supervisión judicial, dice tribunal en París.