Gaddafi claims over financing Sarkozy presidential campaign reappear on French TV ― RT News
"It's me who made him president," Gaddafi said in an interview recorded in 2011, broadcast by France-3 on Wednesday. The former dictator was speaking in Tripoli in mid-March, just a few days before the first Western strikes that led to his downfall and killing by militias in October.
"We gave him necessary financing to enable him to win presidential election. He visited me when he was Interior Minister and asked me for financial support," Gaddafi told Le Figaro journalist Delphine Minoui, without providing any evidence.
Asked whether he felt betrayed by France's recognition of the opposition to the regime, Gaddafi, who was received in Paris with fanfare and grandeur in 2007, said he did, later adding that "Sarkozy has a mental disability."
When asked why he agreed to finance Sarkozy's presidential campaign, Gaddafi responded: "For us Libyans, if the president of the French Republic wins an election thanks to our funds, it's a real gain."
Gaddafi's official interpreter, Moftah Missouri, who translated the interview, told France-3 that after the interview the Libyan leader told him that the financial aid totaled "$20 million."
Gaddafi’s son has also made similar claims. “Sarkozy must give back the money he took from Libya to finance his electoral campaign. We funded it and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everything,” Saif al-Islam told Euronews in 2011.
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