Claude Guéant had a tough time on Thursday, January 16, and the old gentleman, who testified sitting on a chair at the Paris court, will probably not have the heart to celebrate his 80th birthday on Friday, January 17. The former right-hand man of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Ministry of the Interior and then at the Elysée, was questioned at length about his strange trip to Libya in 2005 – and his dinner with Abdallah Senoussi, the brother-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi and the organizer of the attack on UTA's DC 10 which killed 170 people, including 54 French people, in 1989.
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Suspicions of Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007 revolve around a now plagued character, the intermediary Ziad Takieddine, on the run to Lebanon after being sentenced to five years in prison in the Karachi affair , a record of arms sales to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Claude Guéant knew him well. The senior official, “the brightest of his class”recognized the national financial prosecutor's office, was then chief of staff of Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister of the Interior, when Brice Hortefeux, friend and advisor of the minister, presented it to him in 2003.
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