SHOTLIST: PARIS, FRANCE (OCT. 13, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIOR OF TRIBUNAL DE PARIS ('COURT OF PARIS) (TWO SHOTS) 2. FRENCH AND EU FLAGS WAVING OUTSIDE 3. SECURITY MEASURES 4. SECURITY MEASURES / PEOPLE WAITING, WALKING 5. FRENCH FLAG ON GROUND / BANNERS ON GROUND 6. BANNERS ON GROUND 7. SIGNBOARD THAT READS TRIBUNAL DE PARIS 8. PAPER ATTACHED TO WALL SHOWING DIRECTION 9. VARIOUS OF PRESS MEMBERS WAITINGPARIS, FRANCE - OCT. 13, 2025: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared before court on Monday (Oct. 13) in capital Paris, where a large number of press members gathered and heavy security measures were taken. On Sept. 25, Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiracy in a case involving Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign, according to media reports. The court found Sarkozy, who denied all wrongdoing, guilty of criminal conspiracy but cleared him of passive corruption and other illegal financing charges, the reports said. Sarkozy faced charges, including illegal campaign financing, concealment of embezzled public funds, and conspiracy.​ The prosecution characterized an alleged 2005 agreement between Sarkozy, then-interior minister, and then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi—a pariah in the West—as a "pact of corruption inconceivable, unheard of, and indecent." Sarkozy was elected France’s president in 2007 and served in the post until 2012.