Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on the first day of a five-year sentence, marking the first time a former leader of modern France has spent time behind bars. Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison, where he will occupy a small cell in the its isolation wing. n18oc_world n18oc_crux