Carla Bruni could be sent to trial by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office as part of the investigation on the retraction in 2020 of the intermediary Ziad Takieddine, who had accused her husband Nicolas Sarkozy of having financed his 2007 presidential campaign with Libyan funds and then, in 2020, had made a total – and suspicious – backtrack by taking back his previous declarations.
According to a source cited by AFP, the model and singer has been summoned by the prosecutor’s office and risks being accused of related crimes to the falsification of testimonies, criminal association aimed at preparing a fraudulent trial and corruption of judicial personnel.
The date of the interrogation in which Bruni she could be indicted or, at best, cited as a witness.
The judicial investigation opened in May 2021 concerns the alleged attempt to deceive French justice, a crime 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.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s involvement is linked to his relations with Mimi Marchand, one of the most powerful women in communication in France, a friend of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, among others. Mimi Marchand is suspected of having played a key role in the operation that led Takieddine to withdraw charges against Sarkozy, and in this regard she would have met with Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife.
The case exploded in November 2020, when Ziad Takieddine, Nicolas Sarkozy’s main prosecution witness since 2012, made a spectacular about-face on the Bfm TV network and on Paris Matchclaiming that the former French head of state had not “received a cent, in cash or otherwise, for the 2007 presidential election” from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy is suspected of having paid Takieddine to convince him, through Mimi Marchand, to withdraw the charges against him, and Carla would have facilitated the meeting in Beirut between Mimi Marchand and Takieddine.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has always supported the total innocence of the husband in the various judicial matters concerning him, including this one.
