Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has started a five-year prison sentence at La Santé prison in Paris for criminal conspiracy related to receiving funds from Muammar Gaddafi for his electoral campaign. He is the first former French leader to be imprisoned since World War II. Sarkozy claims innocence and plans to write a book while in prison, bringing along literary companions including 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and a biography of Jesus Christ. Teljes cikk (Euronews.com)