The former president, who has always refuted any wrongdoing, and eleven other defendants are answering for an alleged corruption affair with Colonel Gaddafi.
Nicolas Sarkozy talks about the « Libyan fable ». Justice, for its part, suspects secret financing of his 2007 presidential campaign thanks to funds paid by the late satrap of Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi. The trial of the so-called “Libyan financing” case is due to open this Monday before the Paris Criminal Court. Twelve defendants, including the former head of state – who faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euros for, in particular, corruption and concealment of embezzlement of public funds – and several of his followers are dismissed. The debates are scheduled to last until mid-April, three afternoons per week.
In 2011, shortly before the fall of his bloodthirsty regime, Colonel Gaddafi, but also one of his sons, Saïf al-Islam, declared that they had allocated large sums of money to Nicolas Sarkozy, thus contributing to his victory. In April 2012, a few days before the second round of the presidential election won by François…
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