PARIS (AP) — The monthslong trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign has shed light on France’s surprising back-channel ...

Bedouin tent in French presidential palace grounds ... In 2005, people close to Sarkozy, who was interior minister at the time, including his chief of staff Claude Guéant and junior minister ...

A former Libyan oil minister found drowned in the Danube, a lavish Bedouin tent rising in the shadow ... s chief of staff during his time as interior minister, was introduced to Senussi in Libya ...

In 2007, Sarkozy welcomed Gadhafi to Paris with honors for a five-day official visit, allowing him to set up a Bedouin tent near the ... who was interior minister at the time, including his ...