Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from jail.
The former French president was set free three weeks into a five-year prison term for taking part in a criminal conspiracy.
Sarkozy will be subject to strict judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.
He was sighted in his car leaving La Santé prison in Paris, less than an hour and a half after a court agreed to his early release.
Soon after, he was seen arriving at his home in western Paris.
The former centre-right president, aged 70, was sentenced to five years on 21 October for conspiring to fund his 2007 election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
His legal team immediately filed a request seeking his release.
One of Sarkozy’s lawyers, Christophe Ingrain, described his client’s release as a step forward.
The counsel added that they would now be preparing for the appeal trial due to begin in March next year
