Overview

• Paris prosecutors opened two inquiries into threatening messages against Judge Nathalie Gavarino and assigned the probes to the national online hate unit.
• Sarkozy’s appeal does not suspend the sentence, and he is summoned by the financial prosecutor on 13 October to set incarceration details, marking the first time a former French president faces jail.
• The court convicted him of association de malfaiteurs based on preparatory acts, finding money left Libya without proof it ultimately entered his 2007 campaign.
• Co-defendants saw mixed outcomes: Claude Guéant received six years including for passive corruption and forgery, Brice Hortefeux got two years, and Éric Woerth was acquitted.
• The verdict ignited sharp political reactions, with right and far-right figures attacking the use of provisional execution and some calling for a presidential pardon, while Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu affirmed respect for judicial authority and said any legal review belongs to Parliament.