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Sarkozy to sue website claiming 'Gaddafi funded 2007 election campaign' | French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reportedly said that he would sue a website that claimed slain Libyan dictator
Muammar Gaddafi offered to help fund his 2007 election campaign. French news site
Mediapart recently claimed that Gaddafi's regime offered to spend 30 million pounds
on his first campaign. The website published what it claimed was a Libyan document
from 2006, signed by Gaddafi's then-intelligence chief Moussa Koussaan. According
to Sky News, Sarkozy has now dismissed the document as a 'crude forgery'. "We
will file a suit against Mediapart. This document is a crude forgery. The two
people supposed to have sent and received this document have dismissed it," Sarkozy
told France 2 television. "There's a section of the press, of the media, and notably
the site in question whose name I refuse to mention, that is prepared to fake
documents. Shame on those who have exploited them," he added. According to the
report, in response, the editorial director for Mediapart, Francois Bonnet, described
the accusation as 'simply grotesque and defamatory'.
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