Ziad Takieddine, one of the main prosecution witnesses against Nicolas Sarkozy in the investigation into suspicions of Libyan financing of the 2007 presidential campaign, withdrew his accusations on Wednesday in a video unveiled by Paris Match and BFM TV.

Ziad Takieddine, one of the main prosecution witnesses against Nicolas Sarkozy in the investigation into suspicions of Libyan financing of the 2007 presidential campaign, withdrew his accusations on Wednesday in a video unveiled by Paris Match and BFM TV.

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"I say it loud and clear, but this Tournaire judge (editor's note: the former investigating judge in charge of the case) was kind enough to turn it around in his own way and make me say things that are totally contrary to what I said. I said (...): there was no financing of the presidential campaign of Sarkozy "declared this sulphurous intermediary, on the run in Beirut when he was sentenced in June in France in the financial section of the Karachi case.

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