France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy departed a Paris prison Monday after a Paris appeals court granted him release under judicial supervision, less that three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya.
Sarkozy’s black car with tinted windows was seen leaving the prison in the direction of his home in western Paris, The AP news reported.
The former president, 70, is banned from leaving the French territory and from being in touch with key people including co-defendants and witnesses in the case, the court said.
An appeals trial is expected to take place later, possibly in the spring.
