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Two police officers have gone into the jail cell next to the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy This has come to light after he received death threats.
dramatic development 70-year-old man has ‘horror’ first night In La Sainte, a high-security prison in Paris.
After this he was put in jail on Tuesday Five years’ imprisonment for conspiring to accept looted cash From late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi,
Within hours, a video appeared online of a fellow prisoner shouting: “We are going to avenge Gaddafi, we know everything, Sarko… We know everything. Give back the billions of dollars.”
On Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source confirmed that two officers from the SDLP, the VIP security service, “were occupying the cell next to the former president for 24 hours”.
This led Eric Ciotti, president of Sarkozy’s conservative party, The Republicans, to express his concern. death threats,
Mr Ciotti said: “It is completely legitimate that the security of the former President of the Republic be ensured everywhere, at all times, in all places.
“Especially when the threats against him will be much greater in the areas he finds himself in.
“I saw pictures of death threats upon his arrival. His safety must be guaranteed.
“This imprisonment is a terrible ordeal for his family. I think about the hardship they are going through.”
Carla BruniSarkozy’s third wife, has already spoken to him in prison via a cell landline, with Sarkozy’s lawyers confirming that his first night there was “terrible”.
One of them, Jean-Michel Darois, told: “I saw him in the visiting room, we stayed together for a long time.
“He’s the guy everyone knows – strong, dynamic, a fighter. He’s brought two books to read: vengeance [the novel by Alexandre Dumas] about revenge, and life of jesus christAbout resurrection.
Videos posted online mention Sarkozy and Ziad Takieddine, a former Lebanese arms dealer who died under mysterious circumstances earlier this year after he was accused of being a mediator between Gaddafi and Sarkozy.
An unidentified prisoner in La Santé shouts: “Sarco, he is over there in an isolated area.
“He’s all alone in his cell. He just arrived, Tuesday, October 20, 2025 – he’s going to have a bad time.
“Right next to it, down there, is solitary confinement – that’s solitary confinement, that’s right up there.
“And we know everything – we are going to avenge Gaddafi. We know everything, Sarko, Ziad Taqieddin, we know everything. Return the billions of dollars.”
It was in 2011 that RAF and French Air Force jets led a massive bombing campaign that ended with Gaddafi’s lynching by the mob.
David Cameron was the British Prime Minister at the time and visited Libya with Sarkozy.
There have been claims that Sarkozy wanted his old friend and ally killed because of his ability to produce secret evidence.
Sarkozy kissed BruniLa Sainte, a former supermodel, said goodbye outside her £5m Paris townhouse on Tuesday morning before leaving.
He was checked into the notorious prison at 9.40 in the morning, when other prisoners shouted “Welcome, Sarko!” Made fun of him by saying. and “Sarkozy is here!”
Sarkozy was found guilty of accepting millions in illegal cash from Gaddafi in order to win office for five years between 2007 and 2012.
He is currently serving a five-year sentence, but faces further criminal inquiries having also been convicted of two earlier offences.
Those who have spent time in La Santé – meaning health – include notorious terrorists and armed robbers such as Carlos the Jackal (Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez) and armed robber Jacques Masrin.
Sarkozy is the first French head of state to go to a prison cell since Marshal Philippe Pétain, a wartime Nazi collaborator.
He will spend most of his time alone in a 29-foot-square cell equipped with a shower, bed, small desk, a landline phone and a TV, which will cost him the equivalent of £13 a month to watch.
He will be allowed to walk alone once a day in a small courtyard, but will not have a mobile phone.
Sarkozy used to be interior minister in France, when his tough policies earned him the nickname “Le Top Cop”.
He once claimed that young criminal “scum” on housing estates should be “blasted with a lightning bolt”.
Such a background makes him a very vulnerable prisoner.
Christophe Ingrain, another lawyer for Sarkozy, said he was appealing against being jailed, but it would take at least a month for the appeal to be heard.
Mr Ingrain said: “He is taking it upon himself to make sure that no one has to feel the outrage and anger that one feels when suffering this injustice. Humanly, this is an extremely ordeal.”
Following separate trials, Sarkozy was also found guilty of attempting to bribe a judge and illegal campaign funding.
Carla Bruni herself is accused of being part of a £4m campaign called “Operation Save Sarco” – a complex and illegal scheme to try to keep her husband out of prison.
He has been charged with multiple corruption crimes, including “witness tampering in an organized gang”, and faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty in a separate trial.
Like her husband, Ms Bruni denies any wrongdoing.