Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (C) speaks to the press flanked by his wife Carla Bruni (C-R) and French lawyer Jean-Michel Darrois (C-L), Claude Gueant, defendant, former French presidency general secretary and former Interior minister (3R) and Nicolas Sarkozy's brother Guillaume Sarkozy (2R) after the verdict in his trial for illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris, on September 25, 2025. A Paris court on September 25, 2025 sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years and ordered him to go to prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy over accusations the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi helped fund his victorious 2007 presidential run. The court ordered that Sarkozy should be placed in custody at a later date, with prosecutors given one month to inform the former head of state when he should go to prison. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)