Sarkozy-Gaddafi funding affair: ex-president Sarkozy and three former ministers will stand trial
After ten years of investigation, judges have decided that there is sufficient evidence to send former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in the affair concerning the alleged illegal Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign. The investigating judges are also sending three of the ex-president's ministers for trial in the same affair: Claude Guéant, Brice Hortefeux and Éric Woerth. As Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske report, this is an unprecedented situation in French political and legal history.
ItIt is a case that involves a president, a dictator and an affair of state like no other. On Thursday August 24th two investigating judges officially called for the former president of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in the Libyan funding affair, twelve years after Mediapart first revealed the scandal.
