French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced he is to sue Mediapart over its report of plans by the former Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to fund his presidential election campaign in 2007. Mediapart Editor-in Chief Edwy Plenel explains here why Sarkozy’s reaction, and the accompanying denials of two protected former Gaddafi henchmen, were anything but a surprise.
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