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Two bodyguards in a neighboring cell: Sarkozy protected in prison because of the "threats hanging over him"

Auteur: AFP

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Deux gardes du corps dans une cellule voisine : Sarkozy protégé en prison en raison des "menaces qui pèsent sur lui"

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been incarcerated since Tuesday in the Parisian Santé prison, is accompanied by two security officers "given his status and the threats he faces," the Interior Minister explained on Wednesday.

The former head of state normally benefits from "a protective system in view of his status and the threats weighing on him" and "this system has indeed been maintained in detention," Laurent Nuñez indicated on the news channel Cnews and Europe 1 radio. "It is a decision aimed at ensuring his security," he added.

Two security officers were placed in the cell next to that of Nicolas Sarkozy, 70 years old.

"This is a decision aimed at ensuring his safety," added Mr. Nuñez, "in addition, of course, to everything implemented by the prison administration." This system will remain in place "as long as we deem it useful," the minister assured.

Never in the history of the French Republic or the European Union has a former head of state slept behind bars.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who has always maintained his innocence, was found guilty on September 25 of having allowed two colleagues to prepare a plan to finance his 2007 presidential campaign from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, during meetings with a regime official sentenced to life in France for the attack on the UTA DC-10 in 1989 (170 deaths).

The judges surprised everyone by issuing a warrant for his five-year prison sentence for "criminal conspiracy," without waiting for the appeal hearing, which is expected to take place before the summer. They cited the "exceptional gravity of the facts" and only granted the former head of state a period before his incarceration to allow him time to organize himself.

Mr. Sarkozy filed a request for release on Tuesday. The court has two months to consider it, but the hearing is expected to take place sooner.

He is "obviously a citizen like any other, but there are slightly more significant threats weighing on him" as a former President of the Republic, Mr. Nuñez justified, explaining that the transfer of the former president from his home in western Paris "to La Santé," in the south of Paris, "was escorted to avoid a host of motorcyclists and journalists following the procession...".

Auteur: AFP
Publié le: Mercredi 22 Octobre 2025

Commentaires (4)

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    Pasteferies il y a 9 heures

    Pourquoi pas le mettre sous bracelet electronique, afin d'éviter à ses deux pauvres garde du corps d'être en prison sans avoir commis aucune infraction...c'est de l'imbécilité purement Pastef, ce qui se passe en France

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    Auteur il y a 8 heures

    ...il faut comprendre que ce sera des agents qui vont se suppléer la garde.....lol

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    Non il y a 7 heures

    Iil a déjà été condamné aux bracelets dans une autre affaire et que maintenant le juge a prononcé une peine de 5 ans de prison ferme. Donc il doit faire 5 ans de prison ferme. Et vraiment ça fait plaisir au peuple. Ça redonne confiance dans la justice. C'est une vraie catharsis de le voir là. Ça me rend autant heureux quz l'humiliation électorale de Zemmour à la dernière présidentielle.

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    Thiessois il y a 9 heures

    L Europe aura même une guerre majeure si elle ne fait pas attention à un certain type d individus. Sarkozy avec la Lybie, Zelinsky qui a provoqué la Grande Russie, et à Gaza, on connait le Boucher.

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    Non il y a 7 heures

    Zelenski n'a provoqué personne. Poutine disait même quelques jours avant l'invasion que Zelenski était un grand progrès après Porochenko et qu'il avait une bonne relation avec lui et donc aucune raison d'attaquer l'Ukraine. Il faut arrêter de changer l'histoire. Zelenski lui-même russophone a été élu sur un programme de réconciliation entre les pro-russes et les autres.

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    @thiessois il y a 7 heures

    tu etais credible jusqu'a ce que tu parle de zelensky qui aurait provoque la "grande russie".

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    France il y a 6 heures

    Il est inutile de lhumilier de la sorte.

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    Sarko l'imbécile il y a 6 heures

    Sarko un dealer qui se nourrissait de la chaire humaine des immigrants en tant que politique sans idéologie.
    De Monsieur Charter destinations pays tiers à la PRISON de la santé.
    Et bonne santé.

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