Hands up! Nicolas Sarkozy’s downfall ultimately stemmed from charges of a criminal conspiracy connected to a Libyan attempt to illegally finance his election campaign.

That’s So Sarko!

The grandest fails—and greatest hits!—of France’s first incarcerated former president, who moved into La Santé Prison just last week

By Alexandra Marshall

It should have been us, guys. We got federal indictments and New York State convictions. But, no, it’s Nicolas Sarkozy and not Donald Trump who woke up on the morning of October 21 bathed in the bitter perfume of his new residence—La Santé Prison, in Paris.

Even if the 23rd French president’s time behind bars is cut short, the sound of any jailhouse door hitting him in the rear would be a sweet one for the many, many who disdained his right-wing politics and spectacular thirst for attention.