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Jeremy Harding · Does he still jog? Sarkozy’s Prison Diary

lrb.co.uk7/9/2026
Jeremy Harding · Does he still jog? Sarkozy’s Prison Diary

Share on Facebook Share Email Print 5771 words Le Journal d’un prisonnier by Nicolas Sarkozy . Fayard, 216 pp., €20.90, December 2025, 978 2 213 73469 9 Show More Show More L ast September ​ Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy. He went through the gates of La Santé prison in Paris a few weeks later. The judge found that in 2005 he had approved an agreement between his political aides and the Gaddafi regime for massive cash transfers from Libya into his campaign coffers for his crack at the presidency in 2007. Seven other people were sentenced for their part in the same conspiracy, but Sarkozy’s removal to La Santé was an extraordinary moment in France’s p

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