Saïf al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, reiterated his accusations against the former President of the French Republic concerning the “affair of Libyan financing” of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign, to RFI.
Through a written interview, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, still under an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, claimed that he had been subjected to “pressure” on three occasions. » so that he changes his version of the facts in court. In 2018, he transmitted his testimony to judge Serge Tournaire, responsible for investigating this case.
He was reportedly offered, for the first time in 2021, to “deny everything that is said about Libyan support for Sarkozy for the elections” in return for “help” to close his case before the ICC. Request that he would have refused.
The Sarkozy clan would have received 5 million euros in cash for the 2007 presidential campaign
“Sarkozy received 2.5 million dollars from Libya to finance his electoral campaign” during the 2007 presidential election, Gaddafi's son also reaffirmed to RFI. The former UMP candidate would have promised, in exchange, to “conclude agreements and carry out projects in favor of Libya”. Another two and a half million were handed over to “the Sarkozy clan”, still in cash, so that the former French president could put an end to the affair of the attack against the UTA DC10 which left 170 dead, including 54 French people. in 1989. Saïf al-Islam Gaddafi assures that he himself supervised these transactions and that it was Claude Guéant, Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff at the time, who received the suitcases of tickets.
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Questioned by the radio, Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer, lawyer Christophe Ingrain, refuted all of Gaddafi's son's statements, calling them “fanciful” and pointing out that these accusations “are based on nothing.” Since the start of his trial, Nicolas Sarkozy has assured that not “a single Libyan cent” financed his 2007 presidential campaign.
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