Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sentenced to five years in prison for corruption, denounced this Wednesday the poor conditions to which he was subjected during the three weeks he spent in prison. He did so in his new book, “ … Diary of a Prisoner.
Just one month after a court approved his release from prison, Sarkozy He has now warned that he is suffering from “isolation”. and that he barely had a “little table” on which to write. “Prison is very hard. The legal process is designed to weaken you, to make the accused feel guilty. Guilty of what? It doesn’t matter. The imposed strategy is to keep a low profile,” he declared in an interview with the newspaper “Le Figaro” and collected by Europa Press.
“I wrote every day with a pen on a small plywood table. I gave the pages to my lawyers, who in turn gave them to my secretary to type them up,” the former president explained. “I wrote in one go and, after my release, I finished the book over the next few days.“, he said.
In this sense, he indicated that after his departure, he gave the text to his wife, Carla Bruni: “she liked it, and the next day I gave it to my lawyers.” During the review process, he said: decided to delete certain passages. “We have eliminated certain overly critical portraits. And when I saw that there were no more objections, I decided to publish it as soon as possible,” he said.
So, he regretted eating “dairy products and apple juice,” as well as “cereal bars and a few candy bars.” “He was confined 23 hours a day, except for visits. I would have given anything being able to look out the window and enjoy the passing cars,” he stressed.
Sarkozy entered prison on October 21, saying he was the victim of a “judicial scandal” which “humiliated” France. The former conservative leader, who became the first former president of France to go to prisonhas always denied any irregularity and has denounced the alleged political persecution against him in court.
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