The French History Podcast#OTD 19 March 2011 After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
Jocelyn#Libya, at the direction of its then-leader #MuammarGaddafi, spent up to €50M funding the 2007 presidential campaign of French politician #NicolasSarkozy
[who was elected and was a key decision-maker in] March 2011 [French intervention] in the Libyan civil war [during which #Gaddafi was killed].
.…#Sarkozy [was sentenced] to five years in prison for criminal association in the Libyan financing case on September 25, 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_financing_in_the_2007_French_presidential_election
