French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

For context, it's not even the first time he's condemned, but this time the crime was sever enough so he couldn't avoid prison.

He delayed the case enough (almost 13 years) so that he's now more than 70 though and I doubt he stays to long in prison because of his age.

But it's nice to see that he couldn't run away from justice forever and is finally in jail.

He should not be in jail now.

His case is going to appeal but the court decided to still jail him now "provisionally" (exécution provisoire), which sounds like a political play. Coincidentally, the same is happening to Le Pen with respect to the decision to ban her from elections...

As for "delaying" the case, this is just the French court system for you. Everything takes years and years.

Why would he have a treatment of favor? Almost every person convicted in his situation has a an execution provisoire, there's no special treatment here. Same for lepen.

Let's put things straight, both of them are criminals, giving them a treatment of favor would be insane.

And to show how morally corrupted they are, both of them have been really loud about a no tolerance justice system. I guess that speaks for itself.

My understanding with Le Pen is that she used funds that were earmarked for he EU parliament staff to pay the salary of someone on her regular staff. I find it hard to believe that similar errors weren’t made by people the French establishment simply like more than her. Calling her a morally corrupt criminal for that is pretty obviously political, and if its political, it should be decided by a vote (which she would win)