I just hope they will not release him after a few weeks for good behaviour or some such nonsense. It would set (another) fatal example that corruption pays off in the end.

Sarkozy's conviction capped years of legal battles over allegations that his 2007 campaign took millions in cash from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

Not only that, their main contact to establish this illegal deal was non other than Abdallah Senoussi, number 2 of the Lybian regim at the time and terrorist who organized a terrorist attack against a plane that killed 170 people including 50 French. Nicolas Sarkozy was literally getting millions of Euros from a terrorist to finance his presidential campaign, allegedly to then use his power to rehabilitat Gaddafi on the international stage and drop terrorist charge again Senoussi.

In the end, the court has been extremely cautious and only found him guilty of "criminal organization", despite all of the existing and converging evidences. This man brings shame to the French nation and 5 years in prison is really not much to pay for his crimes.