Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: the couple facing a year locked up at home

House arrest could wreck the former president’s career
Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy in 2018
Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy in 2018
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, likes to wear loafers made by Tod’s, the luxury Italian shoemaker. Some time soon he may be accessorising them with a chic little ankle bracelet, the sort that tracks his movements and ensures that his one-year sentence for bribery is being properly served within the confines of his home. Step outside the flat he shares with Carla Bruni, and he could be sporting a very arresting look.

That moment is not yet upon him. He has appealed against his sentence for trying to bribe a judge, and that will keep him from imprisonment until a new trial is over.

Reports from France suggest Sarkozy’s sentence would be served in the flat he shares with Bruni in a 19th-century building