Bad news for the ex first lady Carla Bruni inside the investigation into the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The singer and actress has been summoned for possible indictment as part of the investigation into the retraction, in 2020, of the intermediary Ziad Takieddinewho had accused her husband of having financed the 2007 presidential campaign con Libyan funds.
According to a source cited by theAfpthe former model risks being charged with crimes related to the falsification of testimonies, criminal association aimed at preparing a fraudulent process and corruption of the judicial staff. From the interrogation for which she was summoned on an unspecified date, Bruni could emerge indicted or at best as assisted witness. The judicial investigation opened in May 2021 concerns the alleged attempt to deceive French justice for which the former president was indicted in October. Carla Bruni has already been questioned twice by investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Crimes, first as a witness in June 2023, then as a suspect in early May.
L’ex first lady Frenchwoman must clarify her possible role in the sensational and suspicious retraction of the main witness against Sarkò in the affair of the Libyan funds for her husband’s electoral campaign: above all what were her relations with Michele Marchandthis Mimiknown in the world of popular journalism in France (among other things a friend of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron) suspected of having organized Takieddine’s step back.
At the beginning of May Bruni had responded to a message for three hours interrogation to whom she presented herself free, but as “person called into question“: this makes her not just a witness called to answer the judges’ questions. The investigation into the former French president, in the meantime, is formally closed but the French justice system has not yet put the lid back on the investigation aimed at ascertaining the possible moves of the couple to influence public opinion and to pervert the course of justice.
Although Sarkozy’s wife had already been heard by the judges a year ago, last month she appeared again to testify because “new elements” had not been specified which had made a further hearing necessary. in-depth questioning. Although the former head of the Elysée had always declared his wife’s innocence in the facts, now they want to find out what role Bruni may have had in helping the press to erase any evidence of her husband’s guilt. In particular, Bruni may have procured for Marchand and the photographer Sebastian Valiela a pass (a swab) in October 2020 to be able to travel to Lebanon to conduct the interview in which Takieddine recanted his version of events. The case exploded a month later, in November 2020, when Tiakieddine made a public about-face on Bfm e Paris Matchstating that the former French head of state had “noreceived a dime, cash or otherwise, in the 2007 presidential electionyes Muammar Gaddafi.
The former head of the Elysée, on the other hand, was last October indicted from the two investigating judges who were interrogating him
as part of the investigation into possible fraudulent maneuvers to exonerate him. The former head of state has been accused of witness tampering and of criminal association aimed at fraud.
