Terrorist Amedy Coulibaly met former French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Meeting took place years before the Paris murder spree

President Sarkozy and Amedy Coulibaly AP/Reuters

Cop killer Amedy Coulibaly met with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a troubled 27-year-old worker – years before he died a terrorist.

The Muslim extremist had several prior arrests and spent time locked up before he landed a contract gig with Coca-Cola and an audience with Sarkozy, who spoke and shook hands with a group of 500 young workers in July 2009.

'I don't know what I'm going to say to him,' Coulibaly, 27 at the time, told the Parisian newspaper. 'I'll start by saying hello!' On Friday, Coulibaly was gunned down by police after a two-day terror spree in which authorities say he killed a policewoman and four hostages at a Jewish grocery in conjunction with the Kouachi brothers, who murdered 12 Charlie Hebdo workers in a sick showing of Islamic extremism.

“President Sarcozy is not a popular president, but regardless of wheather you like him or not, he's still the president", said Coulibaly.