Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is standing trial for allegedly having received illegal campaign financing from Libya's ...

A defiant Nicolas Sarkozy told a Paris court on Thursday that allegations of illegal Libyan financing of his successful 2007 presidential bid were a "conspiracy" and that not a single cent of Libyan ...

The 1989 bombing of UTA flight 772 killed 170 people of 18 nationalities, including 54 French citizens. In court, the victims ...

Accused of war crimes, he is now imprisoned in Libya. Sarkozy has been convicted in two other scandals — yet the Libyan case appears as the one most likely to significantly affect his legacy. France’s ...

The charges were widely denounced abroad as false. The day after the release, during Sarkozy’s visit to Tripoli, France and Libya signed wide-ranging cooperation agreements in areas such as defence, ...

Sarkozy has in recent years faced a raft of legal battles. In December, France's highest court upheld his conviction for corruption and influence peddling to obtain favours from a judge. Sarkozy has ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vigorously denounced a “plot” he said was staged by “liars and crooks” on Thursday at a Paris trial over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 president ...

But France then backed the UN-sanctioned military action that helped in 2011 oust the Libyan leader, who was then killed by rebels. Sarkozy has said allegations from former members of Kadhafi's ...

In 2005, then-minister Brice Hortefeux visited Tripoli, where he met Abdullah al-Senoussi, the man behind the 1989 UTA DC-10 ...

The case first came to light in March 2011, when a Libyan news agency reported that the Gaddafi government had financed Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign. In 2014, news outlet French24 reported that in ...

Nicolas Sarkozy was questioned on Monday about his 2005 visit to Libya, which he described in detail to prove that it had ...