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French court orders ex-president Sarkozy released from jail pending appeal
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France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his residence to present himself to La Sante Prison for incarceration on a five-year prison sentence (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
A Paris court grants former French President Nicolas Sarkozy early release from jail, pending an appeal, just weeks after he started a five-year sentence for conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya.
The conservative former president, 70, was jailed on October 21 after a court found him guilty in September of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
He was acquitted of all other charges, including corruption and receiving illegal campaign financing.
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