In 2005, then-minister Brice Hortefeux visited Tripoli, where he met Abdullah al-Senoussi, the man behind the 1989 UTA DC-10 bombing, which killed 170 people. An unplanned meeting, he said, denouncing a 'trap.

The youngest son of former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi claims he was pressured to retract allegations about his country's funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. In an exclusive interview with RFI,

Nicolas Sarkozy was questioned on Monday about his 2005 visit to Libya, which he described in detail to prove that it had been physically impossible for him to enter into a 'pact of corruption' with the Libyan leader.

Every day at the Paris court trying ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy over alleged corruption with Libyan dictator ... helped turn Mediapart into a profitable independent news site. The Libya investigation began in 2011 when an individual contacted the newsroom ...

There is no corruption money because there was no corruption of the candidate,' the former French president assured a Paris court.

Muammar Gaddafi’s son has told FRANCE 24’s sister radio RFI that he was personally involved in giving former French president Nicolas Sarkozy suitcases of cash ahead of his victorious 2007 presidential run.

Once seen as the respectable, media-friendly face of the Gaddafi regime, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator’s second son, has been an elusive figure since his father’s fall in 2011, held for years by a rebel group in a mountainous region southwest of Tripoli, before suddenly resurfacing to launch a short-lived presidential run.

PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial Monday ... Accused of war crimes, he is now imprisoned in Libya. Sarkozy convicted in 2 other cases Sarkozy has been convicted ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy ... about a legal case in which he was implicated. Alleged Libya financing Sarkozy and 12 others will go on trial in January 2025 ...

Son of former autocrat says ex-French president was paid $5m in exchange for political favours, as French court tries 12 over illicit foreign funding

The Acting Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on X she had met with the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Fawzi Al Nuwairi, at the HoR office in Tripoli. "During our discussion, I provided an ...

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