Gaddafi Funded ‘Mentally Deficient' Sarkozy, Interview Claims

Gaddafi Funded ‘Mentally Deficient' Sarkozy, Interview Claims
FILE - In this Friday, March 2, 2007 file photo, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi holds a copy of the Green Book during a debate on the sidelines of celebrations marking the 30-year anniversary of the declaration of the "jamahiriya," or "rule of the masses", in Sabha, Libya. A new law that excludes former officials of the Moammar Gadhafi era from public office is dividing Libya and deepening the turmoil that has plagued the country since the civil war that ousted the erratic leader. Passed by lawmakers essentially at gunpoint, it bans not just those who held office but even clerics who glorified the dictator and researchers who worked on his notorious political tract, the Green Book. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
FILE - In this Friday, March 2, 2007 file photo, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi holds a copy of the Green Book during a debate on the sidelines of celebrations marking the 30-year anniversary of the declaration of the "jamahiriya," or "rule of the masses", in Sabha, Libya. A new law that excludes former officials of the Moammar Gadhafi era from public office is dividing Libya and deepening the turmoil that has plagued the country since the civil war that ousted the erratic leader. Passed by lawmakers essentially at gunpoint, it bans not just those who held office but even clerics who glorified the dictator and researchers who worked on his notorious political tract, the Green Book. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

A French television programme is set to reveal a potentially damming audio recording in which the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi claims he helped bankroll former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign.

In the recorded interview, which France 3 TV said it would broadcast on Wednesday, Gaddafi insults Sarkozy and says the decision to fund a French presidential election was part of his political strategy.

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