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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, is imprisoned in Paris for conspiring to finance his 2007 campaign with Libyan funds.

He is modern France’s first ex-leader to be incarcerated, a dramatic fall for the polarizing conservative once nicknamed “President Bling-Bling.”

Sarkozy maintains his innocence and is appealing his five-year sentence while adjusting to prison life after once commanding France’s nuclear arsenal.

PARIS — Once the most powerful person in France, Nicolas Sarkozy is now behind bars.

Being locked up in Paris’ La Santé prison for criminal conspiracy is the latest twist in the uncommon life of the 70-year-old former president.

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