French paparazzi agency boss Michèle Marchand, an influential PR fixer for politicians, was on Saturday placed under formal investigation for witness tampering and criminal conspiracy. The move relates to the public retraction by a key witness of part of his previous testimony to a judicial probe that Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign was funded by the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Fabrice Arfi, Karl Laske and Antton Rouget report.
Paparazzi agency boss Michèle Marchand, a powerful figure in the French gossip press and an influential PR fixer to politicians, was on Saturday placed under formal investigation for witness tampering in relation to a judicial investigation into the suspected Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential election campaign.
