Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a five-year jail sentence .

The former President of the Republic was found guilty of criminal conspiracy and sentenced today by the Paris Judicial Court. He was sentenced to five years in prison with a fine of €100,000. The 70-year-old is expected to appeal the guilty verdict , but will still have to go to jail, loca media reports.

Le Monde reported that, as part of the sentence, he will be “summoned within one month by the prosecutor’s office to be informed of his incarceration date” - but his appeal won’t suspend the sentence. Sarkozy was found guilty on one charge but acquitted of others in a trial over the illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign with money from the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadha

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