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French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

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375 points begueradj | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 05:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source
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dmead ◴[22 Oct 25 06:28 UTC] No.45665521[source]▶
The French understand how to run a society.
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consumer451 ◴[22 Oct 25 06:35 UTC] No.45665573[source]▶
Huh, this made me find this wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_gov...

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andrewinardeer ◴[22 Oct 25 08:01 UTC] No.45666086[source]▶
Wild.

Norman Saunders: Saunders was alleged by the US Drug Enforcement Administration to have accepted $30,000 from undercover agents to ensure safe passage of drugs by permitting safe stopover refuelling of drug flights from Colombia to the United States. Video evidence showed Saunders accepting $20,000 from an agent. Saunders was convicted in July 1985 of conspiracy, though he was acquitted of the charge of conspiring to import drugs into the United States. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $50,000.

Then he went on to get re-elected. And then had an airport named in his honour. Nuts.

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1. JuniperMesos ◴[22 Oct 25 09:06 UTC] No.45666515[source]▶
Seems like he was arrested in the United States under US law for conspiracy to import drugs into the US. I can see why people in the Turks and Caicos Islands wouldn't really care about a guy being arrested for drug smuggling in a foreign country. I might well vote for a politician who spent years in a foreign country's prison for breaking that country's laws.