Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his book “The Diary of a Prisoner“, which will be released on December 10, describes his prison rations in the Paris prison of Santé. This is reported by Le Figaro, which published excerpts from the book.
“Sarkozy described a life without power. A life without anything.“ “The book describes the daily life of a man who for three weeks ate dairy products, cereal bars, mineral water, apple juice and a few pastries, spending 23 hours a day in his cell, leaving only for visits,”, the publication notes.
The 70-year-old former president, who held office from 2007 to 2012, also talks about life in prison and how he wrote the book.
“I wrote with a pen on a small plywood table every day. I handed the sheets of paper to my lawyers, who gave them to my secretary. "I wrote in a continuous stream, without interruption, and after my release I finished the book in the following days," the newspaper quoted Sarkozy as saying.
The former president also noted that “several harsh portraits were removed from the book“.
On September 25, Sarkozy was found guilty of complicity in a criminal group in the Libyan campaign financing case, but was acquitted of charges of concealing the embezzlement of public funds and passive corruption. However, the court found no evidence of illegal financing of the 2007 election campaign. Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison. On October 21, he began serving his sentence in solitary confinement at the Santé prison in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, where he spent 21 days.