Nicolas Sarkozy did his best to distance himself from his former friend, Thierry Gaubert and said all the good things he thought of his lifelong friend, Brice Hortefeux; Brice Hortefeux returned the compliment, and avoided talking about his friendship with Thierry Gaubert. Especially since it was Gaubert who introduced him to his friend, Ziad Takieddine, with whom he in turn became very close, something he bitterly regrets today – Ziad Takieddine didn't say anything, he is on the run to Lebanon where he awaits better days. All these friends are today on trial, among other things, for “criminal conspiracy” in the case of suspicion of financing by Libya of the 2007 presidential campaign.
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It was Brice Hortefeux who had the hardest time, Wednesday January 15, getting away from his troublesome Franco-Lebanese friend. He met the intermediary Ziad Takieddine in the late 1990s during a reception at the home of businessman Thierry Gaubert, “and I understood that he was in real estate, explains the former minister, in a ski resort » : it is not false, Takieddine managed the Isola 2000 station, in the Alps, where he met the former Minister of Defense François Léotard and set foot in the Karachi affair, for which they were both condemned. In 2003, Brice Hortefeux was advisor to the Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, when Thierry Gaubert asked him to receive the promoter.
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