France’s interior minister on Wednesday, October 22nd confirmed former president Nicolas Sarkozy would be protected by two security officers while serving jail time for a criminal conspiracy case involving Libyan funds.
The former head of state would usually benefit from “a protection arrangement given his status and the threats against him”—an arrangement that “has indeed been maintained in detention,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told local media.
Two security officers are stationed in a neighbouring cell in La Sante prison in Paris, where Sarkozy was incarcerated on Tuesday.
The former president was expected to be held in a nine square metre cell in the prison’s solitary confinement wing to avoid contact with other prisoners, prison staff told AFP.
In solitary confinement, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for one walk a day, alone, in a small yard. Sarkozy will also be allowed visits three times a week.
