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MediaFaro News Digest

Prosecutors seek a seven-year jail term for ex-president Sarkozy in Libya trial.

French prosecutors have requested a seven-year jail sentence and a €300,000 fine for French former president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly taking millions of euros from late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to help his 2007 election campaign.

Sarkozy, president of France from 2007-2012, denies the charges.

mediafaro.org/article/20250328

Sarkozy (right) with the late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (left) . | AP - MICHEL EULER
RFi · Prosecutors seek a seven-year jail term for ex-president Sarkozy in Libya trial.By RFi
#NicolasSarkozy#Trial#Court
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Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺

French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year jail term for former president Nicolas #Sarkozy who is accused of illegally accepting funds for his successful 2007 presidential campaign from former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi .
#France #Libya #corruption #trial

france24.com/en/france/2025032

FRANCE 24 · French prosecutors request 7-year jail term for former president Sarkozy in Libya trialBy FRANCE 24
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Matthias Monroy

Externalisation of migration:
Fortress Europe now has a watch tower in #Libya. An EU-funded project is providing the Coast Guard with new capacities.
digit.site36.net/2025/03/16/ex

Matthias Monroy · Externalisation of migration: Fortress Europe now has a watch tower in Libya | Matthias MonroyAn EU-funded project is providing the Libyan coast guard with new capacities. After eight years and expenditure of almost €60 million, these should now be ready for use – at least in part. After years of delays, Libyan authorities have apparently installed an official EU-funded Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC). According to information from netzpolitik.org, […]
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DoomsdaysCW

Ummmm... From #wikipedia:

The #WagnerGroup (Russian: #ГруппаВагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner (ЧВК «Вагнер»), is a #Russian state-funded private military company (#PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir #Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin. The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces. Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.

"The group emerged during the war in #Donbas, where it helped Russian separatist forces in #Ukraine from 2014 to 2015. Wagner played a significant role in the later full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which it recruited Russian prison #inmates for frontline combat. By the end of 2022, its strength in Ukraine had grown from 1,000 to between 20,000 and 50,000. It was reportedly Russia's main assault force in the Battle of Bakhmut. Wagner has also supported regimes friendly with Russia, including in the civil wars in #Syria, #Libya, the #CentralAfricanRepublic, and #Mali. In Africa, it has offered regimes security in exchange for the transfer of diamond and gold mining contracts to Russian companies. Wagner operatives have been accused of #WarCrimes including #murder, #torture, #rape and #robbery of #civilians, as well as #torturing and killing accused #Deserters.

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"Early in 2020, #ErikPrince, founder of the #Blackwater private military company, sought to provide military services to the Wagner Group in its operations in Libya and #Mozambique, according to The Intercept. By March 2021, Wagner PMCs were reportedly also deployed in #Zimbabwe, #Angola, #Guinea, #GuineaBissau, and possibly the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_G
#ErikPrinceColonialism #PutinsArmy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy

en.wikipedia.orgWagner Group - Wikipedia
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Scott Campbell

"Libya authorities have uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the North African country.

"Al-Abreen, a charity that helps migrants and refugees in eastern and southern Libya, said that some of the people found in the mass graves had been shot and killed before they were buried."

aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/li

Al Jazeera · Libya finds two mass graves with bodies of nearly 50 migrants, refugeesBy Al Jazeera
#Libya#immigration
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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

Via #Ansa @ 7:51am ET on Feb 5, 2025

Opposition #5StarMovement (#M5S) leader and ex premier #GiuseppeConte on Wednesday accused Premier #GiorgiaMeloni of "running away" and demonstrating "institutional cowardice" in failing to speak to the controversy surrounding the release and return to #Libya of wanted #war criminal #OsamaAlmasri, instead sending two ministers to brief parliament in her stead.

#Italy #ITApol #WarCriminal

ansa.it/english/news/politics/

Agenzia ANSA · Meloni running away, institutional cowardice says Conte - Politics - Ansa.itOpposition 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader and ex premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday accused Premier Giorgia Meloni of "running away" and demonstrating "institutional cowardice" in failing to speak to the controversy surrounding the release and return to Lib... (ANSA)
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Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

#JonathanCook

"If you believed all of these stories, and still believe that the West is doing its best to bring to heel Islamic extremism and a supposed Russian imperialism in Ukraine, then you presumably also believe that Israel levelled Gaza, destroyed all its hospitals and starved its entire population of 2.3 million simply to “eliminate Hamas”, even though Hamas has not been eliminated."

jonathancook.substack.com/p/th

Jonathan Cook · Thirty years of Middle East lies just keep coming back to bite usBy Jonathan Cook
#MiddleEast#Afghanistan#Iraq
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