Nicolas Sarkozy will be imprisoned at La Santé prison in Paris starting October 21, following his summons by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) to appear before the Paris court. But what will the former president's detention look like?

Nicolas Sarkozy has now been given his decision: he will be imprisoned at La Santé Prison starting October 21. The National Financial Prosecutor's Office served him with his summons on Monday, October 13. RMC was able to learn more about his future conditions of detention and the rest of his schedule.

Nicolas Sarkozy therefore has one week of freedom left and will have to report to La Santé prison next Tuesday to be imprisoned: something never before seen in France.

THIS IS WHAT NICOLAS SARKOZY'S LIFE WILL BE LIKE

In this Parisian prison, renovated and reopened in 2019, Nicolas Sarkozy will be alone in a 9m² cell with a shower and integrated toilet, a bed, a fridge, a hob, a table and a TV.

A prisoner unlike any other who will be closely supervised by the guards, probably in the specific section for “vulnerable people”, away from other prisoners, with one hour per day in the exercise yard and three visiting rooms per week.

But his lawyers will quickly request his release. The appeals court will have a maximum of two months to consider the request. Before that, Nicolas Sarkozy—still free this week—will be able to celebrate his daughter Giulia's birthday with his family, who will turn 14 next Sunday.

FIRST FORMER HEAD OF STATE OF AN EU COUNTRY TO GO TO PRISON

On September 25, the Paris Criminal Court found the former head of state guilty of criminal conspiracy for allowing his closest associates to approach Muammar Gaddafi's Libya with a view to illegally financing his victorious 2007 presidential campaign. It sentenced him to five years in prison.

Despite having appealed the judgment, Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, will be imprisoned due to the deferred detention order with provisional execution issued against him. A measure that the court justified by the "exceptional gravity of the acts" committed by a political leader then aspiring to the highest office of the Republic.

Unlike the two other people sentenced to detention in this trial, the intermediary Alexandre Djouhri and the banker Wahib Nacer, Nicolas Sarkozy, who has always responded to court summonses, was given time before his incarceration to make professional arrangements. The former champion of the right will thus become on October 21 the first former head of state of a European Union country to go behind bars .