A Paris court on Thursday convicted ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy of criminal conspiracy for accepting illegal campaign funds from late Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
The ruling is the latest in a string of legal hurdles for the right-wing ex-leader, 70, who denied the charges. Sarkozy, who was president of France from 2007 to 2012, has already been convicted in two separate cases and stripped of France’s highest honour.
The judgement has been overshadowed by the death on Tuesday in Beirut of Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine, a key accuser of Sarkozy in the case.
Are you seeing this shit, USA? You better start taking notes.
I get wistful watching other countries holding members of the ruling class accountable for their wrongdoings. Maybe one day the US will act like a grown-up country!
Oh don’t worry, France isn’t far from the US. Loads of leaders have been judged guilty but they always come out unscathed…
Those who commited war crimes in lybia didn’t thought
Collaborating with Muammar Gaddafi earns my respect tbh. He was a great leader.
He took money from kadafi then betrayed him. Kadafi was raped and executed during sarkozy presidency
Ew, fuck him then.