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.

“It’s a pleasure. I don’t know what I’m going to say to him,” Coulibaly told the Parisian newspaper. “I’ll start by saying ‘hello!’”

Coulibaly met his end Friday afternoon inside a Paris kosher grocery store, which he had stormed earlier in the day and taken several hostages. Four hostages were killed and police gunned down Coulibaly at the climax of the hours-long siege.

Hayat Boumeddiene, his 26-year-old girlfriend and alleged accomplice, remains on the loose.

Born in 1982 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, north of Paris, to parents of Senegalese descent and as the only boy in a brood of 10, Coulibaly was a petty criminal with arrests for theft, robbery and drugs beginning at age 17.