Diane de Vignemont (@diane2v.bsky.social)

For @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I argue that to truly understand why the Libyan affair led to Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...

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A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-plane-crashed-in-the-desert-thirty-five-years-later-it-would-help-take-down-nicolas-sarkozy/