The former tenant of Place Beauvau left the Parisian prison shortly after 8:30 a.m. discreetly in a car with tinted windows, AFP journalists noted.
Mr. Guéant, 77, had been placed in detention on December 13, for not having paid on time the fine and the damages that he had been ordered to pay in the case of the bonuses in cash from the Ministry of the Interior.
He was granted a conditional release on Monday, as part of an adjustment to his sentence that he was asking for.
In support of his request for a reduced sentence, his lawyer had argued that his client had "fully paid" his debt to the public treasury via loans granted by his relatives and that in prison, his "health situation ( could only deteriorate, given the triple pathology" from which he suffers.
Former Interior Minister Claude Guéant on October 18, 2021 in court in Paris for the trial of the "Elysée polls" STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN AFP / Archives
Mr. Guéant was sentenced on January 21 in his absence in another case, that of the Elysée polls.
He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, including eight months, for favoritism, with a warrant of deferred committal.
On his release from prison, however, he will not return for this last sentence: he has indeed appealed, which suspends the application of this sanction until a second trial.
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