On Wednesday January 22, the president read her report on Abdallah Senoussi, number 2 in the Libyan regime, brother-in-law of Gaddafi. And, above all, found guilty in 1999 by the Paris Special Assize Court of having “initiated” the attack on the UTA plane which exploded above the Niger desert ten years earlier and caused the death of 170 people, including 54 French people. For nine days, the trial of the supposed Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007 has revolved around him, the criminal. The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) estimates that the defendants tried to negotiate the lifting of his arrest warrant in exchange for a few million euros paid secretly…
This Thursday, January 23, families of the victims of the attack, who became civil parties at the hearing, came to the bar to say their words. Time has done its work since the death of their loved ones, emotion is expressed intelligibly, precisely, simply. But for the defendants, the time is no longer to quibble over Zia's statements
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