Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived on the gates of the infamous La Santé jail the place he’ll now serve his 5-year sentence for a legal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election marketing campaign with funds from Libya. He’s the primary post-WWII chief of France to be imprisoned. For in-depth evaluation and a deeper perspective on this unprecedented second in French historical past, Stuart Norval is joined by fellow journalists Clovis Casali, Philip Turle and Ellen Gainsford, and knowledgeable evaluation of our visitor Dr. Andrew Smith, historian of contemporary France and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary College of London.
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