Brice Hortefeux, ex-French Interior Minister, is in the news amid Sarkozy’s prison stint. He’s a long-time conservative politician born in 1958.
On October 21, 2025, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began serving a five-year prison sentence at La Santé prison in Paris. Convicted of criminal conspiracy for allegedly seeking illegal Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential campaign, Sarkozy denies wrongdoing and has appealed. He is held in solitary confinement under high-security conditions and plans to write a book during incarceration.