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Prosecutors call for Sarkozy to stand trial over Gaddafi funding

Following a ten-year judicial investigation, prompted by Mediapart's revelations of how Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated illegal funding for his 2007 presidential election campaign from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, French prosecutors have called for the former French head of state to stand trial for the alleged scam along with 12 others, including three of his former ministers. 

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French prosecutors have demanded that the former president Nicolas Sarkozy face trial over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign, reports The Guardian.

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Since January 7, 2023 our colleague and friend Mortaza Behboudi has been imprisoned in Afghanistan, in the Taliban prisons.

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