The countdown is launched. Thursday, September 25, former President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to Five years in prison for the “criminal association” With the provisional execution as part of the case of suspicious libyan suspicions of your campaign.
His conviction accompanied by a deferred effect, the former head of state will only be behind bars in several weeks.
Therefore, as of this Friday a countdown to the former president begins. The next deadline is first of October 13, when Nicolas Sarkozy will be summoned before a magistrate of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office to discover the terms of his imprisonment.
During this interview, you will know the date, the time and the place where it will be imprisoned. The texts provide a maximum period of one month of this meeting, which suggests that Nicolas Sarkozy will necessarily be imprisoned before November 13. A source close to the file also indicates, in BFMTV, that the incarceration date will be made in “a period collected” after October 13.
• A launch application
As soon as you put your foot in prison, Nicolas Sarkozy can submit, if you wish, a liberation application. “We will try to ensure that your arrest is as short as possible,” said his lawyer Me Jean-Michel Darrois in BFMTV.
According to article 148-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the examination of your application must be made within two months. For example, if it was imprisoned on October 14, 2025, your application cannot be examined after December 14, 2025.
The former president must appear before the Court of Appeals, responsible for examining his application, during a public hearing. In this situation, you can ask not to be handcuff and not appear in the box.
Although your liberation application can also be done by videoconference from the prison, this case remains unlikely.
The decision of the Court of Appeals is presented on the same day of the exam. If the Court of Appeals agrees to release it, Nicolas Sarkozy may leave at night or the next morning for material contingencies. After the hearing, he will still be forced to return to prison to recover his affairs and sign his end of the nut: the administrative law formalizes the exit of an inmate of the penitentiary establishment.
• An appeal trial
If Nicolas Sarkozy has asked for the conviction, therefore, he may not escape the imprisonment due to provisional execution. In this file, three people will be arrested or arrested: Wahib Nomelo and Alexandre Djhouri jailed this Thursday night and, therefore, Nicolas Sarkozy.
In this case, the Court of Appeals has the obligation to listen to the trial in the appeal within four months, which leads to a theoretical date of January 25, the sentence has been issued on September 25.
A shadow slides in this diagram. The texts provide that this four -month period can be renewed twice with relay audiences. This means that this first four -month period can be postponed for eight months (May 25, 2026) or 12 months (September 25, 2026).
In the event that the three detainees are released meanwhile, these deadlines jump and the Court of Appeals has more time. According to concordant sources in BFMTV, the Court of Appeals has already provided dates for the appeal trial.
• The Bygmalion case
Apart from all this matter, Nicolas Sarkozy will also see that his agenda is filled with the latest Bygmalion matter disorders. On October 8, the Cassation Court had to examine its appeal.
In this file, Nicolas Sarkozy received a sentence of one year in prison, of which six months can be developed. This means that, if the Court of Cassation validates its conviction, it will submit a request for penalty (probation, electronic bracelet) in the coming weeks or the coming months. And this, in the middle of the Libyan matter.
Source: BFM TV
