Overview

• Nicolas Sarkozy has appealed his five-year sentence for association de malfaiteurs in the 2007 Libya case, which includes exécution provisoire making incarceration imminent unless overturned.
• Paris prosecutors opened two investigations into threatening messages targeting presiding judge Nathalie Gavarino following Thursday’s verdict.
• The Conseil supérieur de la magistrature denounced personal attacks on magistrates as harmful to democracy, and Gérald Darmanin condemned the death threats as intolerable.
• The Syndicat de la magistrature criticized the president’s initial silence before his statement, while calling out attempts to question judges’ impartiality based on union activity.
• Political reactions diverged: François Bayrou warned that wider use of exécution provisoire hollows out meaningful appeals, Marine Le Pen echoed concerns, and Dominique de Villepin and Éric Dupond‑Moretti urged respect for judicial independence and due process.