Defiant Sarkozy heads to jail to start sentence – Europe live

France’s former president was found guilty of acquiring Libyan funding for his 2007 campaign and is being sent to La Sante prison in ParisFormer French president Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived at La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday to start a five-year prison term, Reuters reports.Sarkozy, who was the conservative president of France between 2007 and 2012, was handed a five-year jail term in September for criminal conspiracy over a plan for late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his electoral campaign. Continue reading...