{"id":208836,"date":"2025-01-06T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/trial-starts-for-nicolas-sarkozy-in-libya-election-case\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:04:13","slug":"trial-starts-for-nicolas-sarkozy-in-libya-election-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/trial-starts-for-nicolas-sarkozy-in-libya-election-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial Starts for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Election Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/06\/multimedia\/06france-sarkozy-tblg\/06france-sarkozy-tblg-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trial Starts for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Election Case\" title=\"Trial Starts for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Election Case\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Former President <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/person\/nicolas-sarkozy\" title=\"\">Nicolas Sarkozy<\/a> of France on Monday went on trial in Paris over accusations that his 2007 campaign received illegal financing from the Libyan government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The trial, which is scheduled to last three months, is far from the first for Mr. Sarkozy, 69, a conservative politician who led France from 2007 to 2012, but it represents <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/23\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy.html?searchResultPosition=19\" title=\"\">one of the most serious<\/a> legal threats to the French politician since he left office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just last month, Mr. Sarkozy exhausted his final appeal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/01\/world\/europe\/france-sarkozy-trial-guilty.html?searchResultPosition=15\" title=\"\">in a separate corruption and influence peddling case<\/a>, making him the first former French president sentenced to actual detention, though he will serve his time under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But of all the legal cases against Mr. Sarkozy, the Libya one is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/23\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy.html?searchResultPosition=19\" title=\"\">among the most sprawling, convoluted and explosive<\/a>. It involves accusations that his campaign illegally accepted vast sums of money from Colonel Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who was killed by opposition fighters in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sarkozy, who has denied wrongdoing, could face up to 10 years in prison and be fined nearly $400,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/06\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy-france-libya.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on Monday went on trial in Paris over accusations that his 2007 campaign received illegal financing from the Libyan government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. 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