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

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 ...

What is the trial about? The trial of the right-wing former president and 11 other people, including former ministers, comes after a 10-year anti-corruption probe. The court will hear allegations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

Muammar Gaddafi’s son has told FRANCE 24’s sister radio RFI that he was personally involved in giving former French president ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who has already been convicted in two other cases, faces charges of passive corruption, illegal campaign ...