French President Macron Suspected of Receiving Money from Gaddafi’s Son in 2017

A new scandal is rocking the Elysee Palace as French President Emmanuel Macron is suspected of receiving money from Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam in 2017 to fund his presidential campaign.

Rabat – A new scandal is rocking the Elysee Palace as French President Emmanuel Macron is suspected of receiving money from Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam in 2017 to fund his presidential campaign.

In a new documentary aired on Friday, the Al-Jazeera channel provides a strong line of evidence supporting the claim that the current French president, not unlike his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, received money from a Libyan source to help support his 2017 campaign.

While the Al-Jazeera investigation revolved around the arrest of members of the Russian private defense contracting company Wagner group in Libya in 2019, testimonies from Wagner member Maxim Al-Shugali implicated the French president.

Wagner fighters were sighted in Libya in 2019 when they joined the forces of a rebel general, Khalifa Haftar, after he staged an attack on the UN-backed government in the capital, Tripoli. Russia denied any ties with the group at the time, even as report after report indicated that the group had very close ties with the Kremlin.

Detailing the story of his arrest in Libya, Al-Shugali talked about his relationship with the son of the overthrown Libyan president and alleged that he possessed evidence and information that incriminated well-known leaders and politicians in France, the US, and Ukraine.

According to Al-Shugali, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, helped Emmanuel Macron secure Libyan money through Algerian intermediaries to finance his election campaign.

This is not the first time a French president is charged with taking money from the leadership of a country that the west describes as a dictatorship.

Sarkozy is now facing a one-year prison sentence after being found guilty of receiving money from Gaddafi for his 2012 campaign.

Meanwhile, most former French presidents to have served under the Fifth Republic, from Georges Pompidou up to Jacques Chirac, are known for funding their campaigns and lavish lifestyles through money and other valuable gifts from presidents of African countries of the notorious Françafrique network.