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Guéant’s Letter Confronts Sarkozy in Libya Financing Appeal

The attestation revives a disputed 2007 Tripoli scene that could weigh on the criminal association charge.

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L’ancien président Nicolas Sarkozy le mardi 14 avril 2026, dernier jour de sa défense en appel au palais de justice de Paris, où il est accusé d’avoir sollicité un financement libyen pour sa campagne de 2007.
Nicolas Sarkozy a pris connaissance, moins d’une heure avant le début de cette audience, d’une attestation de trois pages signée de Claude Guéant.

Overview

  • Claude Guéant, absent for health reasons, sent a three-page attestation through his lawyer on Tuesday that denied taking money and recalled Nicolas Sarkozy telling him "Claude, see to it" about Abdallah Senoussi at a 2007 Tripoli dinner.
  • Nicolas Sarkozy rejected that account in court and bristled under questioning during the final day of his interrogation in the Paris appeal.
  • Guéant’s counsel told AFP on Wednesday he may file a follow-up statement if Sarkozy again questions his client’s probity, signaling further clashes to come.
  • The appeal challenges a 2025 judgment that sentenced Sarkozy to five years for association of malefactors, a charge tied to 2005 meetings in Tripoli between his aides and Senoussi, a Libyan security chief convicted in France for the 1989 UTA DC-10 bombing.
  • Prosecutors point to ex-minister Choukri Ghanem’s diary and tracked flows linked to intermediaries Ziad Takieddine and Alexandre Djouhri that reference a €6.5 million pledge for the 2007 campaign, evidence Sarkozy disputes.