Créteil (AFP)
Alexandre Djouhri, imprisoned after his indictment on Friday in the investigation into suspicions of Libyan funding for the Nicolas Sarkozy campaign in 2007, started a hunger strike in prison, we learned Sunday from sources close to folder.
The Franco-Algerian businessman, placed in pre-trial detention in Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne), declared himself on a hunger strike on Saturday. He is followed medically, as the procedure requires, according to this source close to the file.
Contacted by AFP, his lawyer Me Pierre Cornut-Gentille declared not to have been "informed by the authorities of this hunger strike".
The sexagenarian intermediary had been imprisoned Friday evening after his indictment, in particular for "forgery and use of forgery" and "active corruption". Suffering from health problems, he had been placed in the Fresnes hospital service.
Claimed for years by French justice, he had been handed over to the authorities on Thursday evening upon his arrival at Roissy airport from London, where he had been arrested in January 2018 under European arrest warrants.
The businessman was hospitalized in the British capital after a series of heart attacks. He was placed under house arrest after paying 1.13 million euros in bail.
Close to former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and then the former Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy Claude Guéant, he was eagerly awaited by French magistrates, the investigations having revealed several suspicious financial flows implicating him in the Libyan affair .
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