# France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed today, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. France’s right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012 was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya for the campaign that saw him elected. AFP journalists saw the 70-year-old, who has appealed the verdict, leave his home, and after a short drive flanked by police on motorbikes, enter the La Sante prison in the French capital.
Sarkozy becomes first former head of an EU state to be jailed