Trouble ahead for Carla Bruni. According to a source cited by AFP, the model and singer could risk being charged with crimes related to the falsification of testimonies, criminal association aimed at preparing a fraudulent trial and corruption of judicial personnel. All this, as part of the investigation into the 2020 retraction of Ziad Takieddine, the intermediary who had accused her husband (and former French president) Nicolas Sarkozy of having financed his 2007 presidential campaign with Libyan funds.
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The story
Former First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy risks serious legal trouble: the Italian top model, naturalized French, has been summoned by the judges for the possible opening of a file against her as part of the investigation into the retraction in 2020 of the accusatory testimony against Nicolas Sarkozy by the intermediary Ziad Takieddine. This is a branch of the more general investigation arising from the alleged financing of the 2007 presidential campaign, won by Sarkozy, with Libyan funds. Sources close to the investigators have reported that the former top model and singer from Turin risks being charged with crimes such as complicity in influencing a witness or criminal association aimed at corrupting Lebanese judges. During the summons, the date of which is not known, she could be put under investigation with the status most favorable to her, that of “witness informed of the facts”.
Previous interrogations
On May 2, Carla Bruni had already been interrogated for three hours by investigators, to whom she had tried to explain her relationship with a key figure in the affair, Michèle Marchand, known as “Mimi”, a leading figure in “people” journalism in France, suspected of having orchestrated the retraction of the witness, the intermediary and businessman Ziad Takieddine. In 2020, Takieddine, considered by Sarkozy to be his main accuser, suddenly exonerated – temporarily – the former president, contradicting his own previous accusations. Investigators have long suspected several people close to Sarkozy – family members, collaborators, loyalists – of having organized the retraction to undermine, in the course of the investigation, the credibility of Zakieddine himself, who after a few weeks backtracked and denied the retraction.
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