In 2011, when the Libyan regime collapsed, Muammar Gaddafi's moneyman obtained French support to leave the country. Alexandre ...

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

Son of former autocrat says ex-French president was paid $5m in exchange for political favours, as French court tries 12 over illicit foreign funding ...

The corruption trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy continues. France 24's Shirli Sitbon is at the courthouse and ...

Louis Sarkozy, who spent most of his childhood in the United States, will start writing a column for French far-right news ...

Later, Sarkozy became one of the chief advocates of the NATO-led campaign against Gaddafi that resulted in the dictator's overthrow and killing by rebels in 2011. One of his main accusers, Franco ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday, on charges of having received millions of euros in illegal financing from Libya’s late strongman Moammar Gadhafi for his ...

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

When France's president Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife of two months, Carla Bruni, arrived in Britain for a state visit in March 2008 they were feted as Gallic royalty. The newlyweds ...

The former French president refuted the prosecution's claim that the Libyan leader's visit to Paris in 2007 was a quid pro ...

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

The origins of the case trace back to 2011, when allegations surfaced that Gadhafi's regime had funneled funds into Sarkozy's campaign. In 2012, the French investigative outlet Mediapart published ...