{"id":51157,"date":"2025-10-21T07:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51157"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:00:38","slug":"former-french-president-sarkozy-begins-a-5-year-prison-sentence-for-campaign-finance-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51157","title":{"rendered":"Former French president Sarkozy begins a 5-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former French President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nicolas-sarkozy\">Nicolas Sarkozy&nbsp;<\/a>has arrived at a prison in Paris to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his way to prison, Sarkozy said \u201can innocent man is being locked up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Former French President&nbsp;Nicolas Sarkozy&nbsp;has arrived at a prison in Paris to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. He is the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned. On his way to prison, Sarkozy said \u201can innocent man is being locked up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51162,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51157\/revisions\/51162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}