Nicolas Sarkozy, former President of the French Republic, is in custody. The Nanterre police will question him in the next 48 hours as part of the investigation, opened in 2013, into alleged illicit financing of his 2007 election campaign.
Even the former minister and Sarkozy loyalist, Brice Hortefeux, was questioned this morning as part of the investigation.
The news was given by unidentified judicial sources. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the judiciary is investigating alleged illicit financing that Libya, then led by Muammar Gaddafi, would have granted Sarkozy to carry on the 2007 electoral campaign. According to the latest rumors, they would also be involved senior state officials that they would pass confidential information to influence the investigation.
Last January, the Frenchman was arrested in London Alexandre Djouhri, a businessman accused of linking the former Libyan leader with Sarkozy. In recent months there have been many testimonies in favor of the hypothesis put forward by the transalpine judiciary.
Still no official denial from the Elysée. Premier Edouard Philippe did not want to make a statement, asking the media only for "respect" for Sarkozy and for the ongoing investigations.
