Investigators also looked into a series of trips by Sarkozy’s associates to Libya between 2005 and 2007. In 2016, Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told Mediapart that he had delivered ...

Investigators also looked into a series of trips by Sarkozy’s associates to Libya between 2005 and 2007. In 2016, Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told Mediapart that he had delivered ...

Investigators also looked into a series of trips by Sarkozy's associates to Libya between 2005 and 2007. In 2016, Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told Mediapart that he had delivered ...

Tristan Gautier, another defence lawyer, also argued Takieddine did not withdraw 670,000 euros in cash from Libya to fund Sarkozy's campaign, as alleged by the prosecution. Instead he ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial on Monday over claims that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally funded by the government of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, has denied all wrongdoing. Key moments in the trial focused on talks between France and Libya in the 2000s, when Gadhafi was seeking to restore ...

During the trial, Sarkozy has said he has “never ever betrayed” families of victims. “I have never traded their fate for any compromise, nor pact of realpolitik,” he said. Libya’s push ...