Sarkozy will certainly, given his status as former president, receive protection in prison, says Nuñez to local media. Even before imprisonment, Sarkozy was surrounded by security arrangements due to threats, according to the interior minister.
According to sources for the news agency AFP, two bodyguards have now been stationed in the cell next to Sarkozy's in the Paris prison La Santé. The 70-year-old is also said to be kept separate from other prisoners.
Sarkozy, France's president 2007–2012, was sentenced about a month ago for having financed his presidential campaign in 2007 with financial support from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. He has appealed the sentence of five years in prison, but while waiting for a new trial, he began his prison sentence on Tuesday.
A representative for prison guards calls the presence of bodyguards "an insult" to the profession.
They are practically saying that we do not know how to do our job, says union representative Wilfried Fonck to RTL Radio.
I have never seen anything like this during my 25 years on the job.
