A month after being released from Santé prison, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has published a book in France to explain his prison experience. The journal of a prisoner [The Diary of a Prisoner]. It's a 200-page book in which Sarkozy settles scores with French political leaders and talks about his time in prison. which only lasted 19 days and was full of privileges"I had climbed, one by one, the rungs of social life throughout my existence. I had just fallen ten floors in one fell swoop," he writes of his admission to Santé, the prison located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will spend Christmas at home. Twenty days after being imprisoned in Santé prison in Paris, he was finally able to return home on Monday. despite having been sentenced in the first instance to five years in prison for the crime of illicit association In the case of Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign, the French courts have granted him conditional release under judicial supervision. The former president left prison at 2:30 p.m. in a car escorted by police. This time, there was no welcoming committee when he arrived at his home in Paris's 16th arrondissement, aside from the press and a few onlookers. Pending the appeals process, scheduled for March of next year, the courts have prohibited him from leaving the country and from having contact with anyone connected to the case. He is also prohibited from contacting Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, a personal friend of Sarkozy. The Justice Minister visited him in prison, a gesture that drew criticism from the judiciary. The explicit prohibition against contact is a clear disapproval of Darmanin's gesture. The appeals court, which examined Sarkozy's request for release early Monday morning, ruled that his continued pretrial detention was unjustified because there was no risk of evidence tampering, pressure, or collusion. Sarkozy appeared via video conference from prison this morning. His wife, Carla Bruni, and two of his children were physically present at the hearing. "It's hard, very hard," the former Élysée Palace resident admitted about his time in prison, also calling it a "nightmare." The prosecutor had requested his release, albeit with "strict" judicial oversight, given that the sentence is not final and that the former conservative head of state is already 70 years old, an age at which the French justice system rarely keeps people in prison without a final sentence, especially if there is no possibility of a plea bargain.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is already in prison. Sentenced to five years for the crime of criminal association in the case of financing his 2007 presidential campaignThe conservative leader became the first former French head of state to enter a penitentiary on Tuesday, the Santé prison in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.