Nicolas Sarkozy: “You won’t find a minute of Libyan money in my campaign”

The former president in , categorically denied that he was funded by Libya by Muammar Gaddafi in the 2007 campaign. In fact, as Nicolas Sarkozy has said, he has not taken “neither has come a minute of Libyan money” for his campaign in the 2007 elections in France and there is “nothing” to blame him. CORVERSE Sarkozy, who is tried from Monday to 10 April in a Paris court for corruption, concealing public funds embezzlement, illegal funding of his campaign and criminal organisation, is at risk with a prison sentence and a fine of 375,000 euros, as well as depriving his civil rights (and therefore loss of election) for up to five years. He denounced the funding case of his campaign from Libya as a “conspiracy”. First to take the floor in court, the former head of state (2007-2012) stated: “Ten years of slander, 48 hours of detention, 60 hours of interrogation”. CORVERSE Overall, he said, “10 years of research” that went “the world round” to testify various witnesses and to seek evidence. And in the end, “what was found? Nothing,” he said repeatedly. “Nothing that concerns me,” Sarkozy, who is on trial with 11 other people, among them the three former ministers Claude Gean, Bris Ortefe, and Eric Vert. “There is reason to have anger,” he added. “You will never find a euro or a Libyan minute in my campaign,” he said. “I will answer all the questions, as I have always done, I have always assumed my responsibilities and I am certainly willing to do so during these four months,” Sarkozy added. “The money of corruption is the great absent from this trial and for a simple reason: there is no money from corruption as there was no corruption of the candidate,” he said. “I have no account to settle and certainly not with the institution of which I know that part of it has violently fought me when I was president. Ineffective or enthusiastic, I trust,” he also said that he who regularly blames nominal judges in the many legal procedures that concern him.