Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from prison after a Paris court ruled Monday he could be freed pending an appeal for his September conviction for criminal conspiracy, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.

Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy for his role in securing funding for his 2007 presidential campaign.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, initially jailed for his involvement in a campaign finance scheme, will be released from prison under judicial supervision. Sarkozy, who has denied any wrongdoing,

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from his “nightmare” in a French jail just 20 days into a five-year sentence for his role in an alleged electoral funding conspiracy linked to the late Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi’s regime.

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.

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.