In Europe, Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to begin a five-year sentence Tuesday in Paris’ La Santé prison.

Sarkozy, convicted of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya, will become the first in modern history to be imprisoned.

The former head of state, however, has maintained his innocence.

Regardless, he will be admitted to serve his time in a prison that has held some of the most high-profile inmates since the 19th century..

Nicolas Sarkozy told a French newspaper that he expects to be held in solitary confinement, where he would be kept away from all other prisoners for security reasons.

Another possibility is that he is held in the prison’s section for “vulnerable″ inmates, commonly known as the VIP section.