US EditionSarkozy says he owes France ‘the truth’ as he challenges conviction over alleged Libya funding
He denies any Libyan money reached his 2007 campaign as prosecutors say aides sought favors for Gadhafi's regime in exchange for funding.
- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared at a Paris appeal trial on Tuesday, maintaining his innocence regarding allegations he sought illegal campaign funding from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
- Prosecutors allege Sarkozy's aides struck a deal to secure Libyan funds for his 2007 presidential campaign in exchange for improving Tripoli's international image and lifting arrest warrants against intelligence chief Abdullah.
- Rejecting charges of criminal conspiracy, Sarkozy told the court, "You can only respond to such indescribable suffering with truth. But you cannot repair suffering with an injustice: I am innocent." His wife, model and singer Carla Bruni, attended the hearing.
- Convicted of criminal conspiracy by a lower court in September, Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison if the appeal upholds or increases his initial five-year sentence.
- The 12-week appeal trial reexamines evidence related to Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 bombings, which killed 259 and 170 people respectively, after relatives of victims testified last week.
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Sarkozy Denies, in His Appeal, that He Should Be Corrupted by the Libyan Regime: «It Makes No Sense»
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied this Tuesday that he was setting up a corruption pact with the Libyan dictatorship of Muammar el Gaddafi. “How can anyone think that I chose a man as unpredictable as Gaddafi to get sulphur financing, after a half-hour interview?” asked himself in a rhetorical way who was head of state from 2007 to 2012. “This makes no sense. I didn’t know Libya or the Libyans,” he added during his interrogation at …
"Gadafi had no power over me, neither political, nor financial, nor personal," Nicolas Sarkozy said again before the Paris Court of Appeal. The former French president sat back on the bench this Tuesday for the Libyan illegal funding case of his election campaign in 2007. Continue reading....
"A mistake" and even "a mistake" of his collaborators Claude Guéant and Brice Hortefeux: on the first day of his interrogation before the Paris Court of Appeal, the former French president Nicolas...
France's Sarkozy Maintains Innocence in Libya Funding Case
French former President Nicolas Sarkozy maintained his innocence at an appeal hearing in Paris on Tuesday over his conspiracy conviction last year, saying that not a single cent from Libya helped fund his 2007 presidential campaign.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) reiterated this Tuesday his innocence in the appeal trial for the alleged funding of his 2007 presidential campaign by the Libyan regime of Muamar el Gaddafi. This Tuesday he started his interrogation, which will last three days and is key to his acquittal, as he claims, or a new conviction. Sarkozy was sentenced in September to five years in prison for this case and became the first former hea…
Libyan financing of the 2007 presidential campaign remains at the heart of the trial. At the helm, Nicolas Sarkozy rejects any involvement and charges his former ministers, evoking a "error" during meetings...
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