A still image from the documentary 'The President and the Dictator' by Antoine Vitkine, showing Claude Guéant whispering in Nicolas Sarkozy's ear in Tripoli, Libya, on July 25, 2007, during an official dinner hosted by Muammar Gaddafi. Guéant also submitted another image from the film to the court, which showed Libyan terrorist mastermind Abdallah Senoussi present near the French delegation in 2005. ANTOINE VITKINE/STUDIO KUIV PRODUCTION/INA
On Sunday, April 26, Claude Guéant launched another poisoned arrow at Nicolas Sarkozy by submitting a second statement to the court, even though the sting of the first, which was read to the court on April 14, has not yet faded. With the icy politeness of a senior civil servant, Guéant subtly suggested, between the lines of his written testimony, that ex-president Sarkozy, whom he once served loyally, had lied in the appeal trial over alleged Libyan funding of his 2007 presidential campaign. He also indicated that he had reported back to Sarkozy about a meeting he had attended in Tripoli, in which he met with Abdallah Senoussi, the mastermind behind several Libyan terrorist attacks, who is a central figure in the case. This came as a severe blow to Sarkozy, whose legal case looks increasingly precarious.
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In his three-page letter, which he was allowed to submit due to health reasons that excused him from attending the hearing in person, Guéant, who served Sarkozy from 2004 to 2012, wrote, "I, the undersigned Claude Guéant, wish to address the court and attest to the following facts." This was followed by six numbered points of varying significance.
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