The LR show their support after Takieddine's about-face on Sarkozy
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, during a ceremony at the Arc du Triomphe, on November 11, 2020, in Paris.
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In the aftermath of Ziad Takieddine's about-face in the Libyan affair, the right wing shows its unwavering support for Nicolas Sarkozy.
The sulphurous intermediary and one of the main prosecution witnesses against the former president announced that he had withdrawn his accusations in a video unveiled by Paris Match and BFMTV on Wednesday, November 11.
At the end of 2016, he claimed to have transported “a total of five million euros” from Tripoli to Paris, between 2006 and 2007.
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The right shows unwavering support after yet
another rebound
in an affair presented as "
from scratch
".
In a press release released at midday
this Thursday, the Republicans (LR) party takes up the cause for its former president, denounces a schedule which has "
left little doubt about the political springs of this affair
" and asks that "
all light be shed
".
As soon as
Ziad Takkiedine
retracted on
Wednesday 11 November, several party officials had already shown their support on social networks.
In particular by taking up the words of Nicolas Sarkozy.
"
The truth always triumphs
," tweeted the boss of deputies LR Damien Abad.
“
We never doubted
”, added the number two of the party, Guillaume Peltier.
We never doubted.
These revelations are astounding: the public prosecutor admits his lies which have sullied the statesman, @NicolasSarkozy.
The truth is out.
May she overwhelm the slanderers with little faith and little law.
Let them be judged and punished.
@VeroniqueWache https://t.co/1sjCADOV9i
Guillaume Peltier (@G_Peltier) November 11, 2020
Same tone on the side of Xavier Bertrand, the president of the Hauts de France region.
The ex-LR,
but possible candidate of the right in 2022
,
tweeted that
“
for eight years, the word of a gang of crooks was put on the same level as that of Nicolas Sarkozy, former President of the Republic
".
Other ongoing proceedings
His camp displays unanimous support for the most beloved right-wing personality of the French.
This even if several elected officials recall that Nicolas Sarkozy has other procedures in progress, including
a trial which begins in ten days in the case of "
tapping
": the former head of state will be tried for corruption.
However, he remains indicted in the Libyan case since March 2018 for "
concealment of embezzlement of public funds
", "
passive corruption
" and "
illegal financing of the electoral campaign
", and since mid-October for
"
criminal association
"
.
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