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At the origin of the revelations on the supposed financing of the 2007 campaign by the Libyan dictatorship, the investigative site is releasing a film retracing the affair, while questioning its own media isolation.
This is a special moment for Mediapart : the Libyan financing trial which opens this Monday, January 6, brings to the table nearly fourteen years of revelations from the investigation site on this alleged state affair. It was therefore necessary to have a film lasting an hour and forty minutes, Nobody understands anything, to revisit the mazes of this dense file. “We wanted to go to Sarkozy’s territory, that of spectacle, explain to Liberation Fabrice Arfi, co-responsible for investigations at Mediapart. When he declares to Figaro “No one understands anything” about this matter, he is answered “chick”». The result, in theaters on Wednesday, is confidently limpid, overwhelmingly unfolding the facts with a touch of the grotesque – the cartoonish defense of Sarkozy, the absurd images of Gaddafi, chapka on his head, visiting Versailles.
The matter comes from the side of Mediapart at the beginning of 2011 by a cryptic email: “I might have something for you, about someone you’re writing about.” That someone is Ziad Takieddine. The Lebanese businessman was already at the heart of the site's first revelations in 2008, six months after its creation, on the Karachi affair. “With Karl Laske, we go
