Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy says he will sleep in prison with his “head held high” after being sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to find funding for his 2007 campaign from Libya’s then-leader Moamer Kadhadi. Speaking outside a Paris courtroom after the verdict, Sarkozy asserts his innocence, describing the ruling as “a scandal” that has “humiliated” not him, but France.
