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Does he have better conditions than any other French persons convicted of a similar crime?

The cell is the same but he is alone in it, most convicts have a cellmate

Not the ones in solitary confinement like him I assume?

His SHU cell has everything the rest of the cells have ; a TV for €14/month, a hot plate, a landline, a shower, a fridge, and on a fixed schedule access to the library and the gym

https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/nicolas-sarkozy-...

I don't know, but what I do know that "jail" has a very different meaning for me.

In Argentina the lives of people of an entire country have been ruined because of the last 20 years of robbery from the state arcs.

Yet every disgusting politician is out there or has served a laughable sentence. And what do you get in turn after ripping off a country? A home prision benefit.

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