Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was freed from prison under judicial supervision on Monday after serving less than three weeks of a five-year sentence for conspiring to raise political campaign contributions from the late Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi.

Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison following his conviction for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his winning 2007 campaign with funds from Libya.

French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate of the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in his prison cell in La Santé in 2022. The 76-year-old had been held there for over a year as he was investigated on suspicion of the rape and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. He had denied any wrongdoing.

France's former president Nicholas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that the truth would win out after he was released from prison under judicial supervision ahead of an appeal trial over Libyan

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from jail, three weeks into a five-year prison term for partaking in