At the Libyan financing trial, Sarkozy and his lieutenants embarrassed by the cumbersome Ziad Takieddine – Libération

It is a threatening shadow, which Nicolas Sarkozy would like to get rid of at all costs. That of the Franco-Lebanese Ziad Takieddine, who appears numerous times in the legal file of the alleged Libyan financing of the campaign of the champion of the right in 2007. He was notably the matchmaker, in 2005, of crucial meetings in Libya between the closest collaborators of the former President of the Republic and Abdallah Senoussi – brother-in-law of Muammar Al-Gaddafi, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999 in France for his role in the attack on the UTA DC-10 plane. Transfers from Libya also appear on accounts held by the sulphurous intermediary, and the latter has accused himself of having transported millions of euros in suitcases of notes intended for the Sarkozysts.

On Monday January 13, Nicolas Sarkozy was the first to speak at the bar on his relations with the various protagonists, including two of his former ministers. He recounts with gusto his meeting with Brice Hortefeux, during a meeting