Around 30 lawyers have filed a complaint against the French justice minister, accusing him of “implicitly” supporting former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is serving a prison sentence. Last month Sarkozy, France’s president from 2007 to 2012, was handed a five-year jail term for criminal conspiracy over a plan for late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his electoral campaign. On Wednesday, Sarkozy, 70, received a prison visit from Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, despite a prosecutor warning that it could undermine judicial independence. Darmanin met Sarkozy at Paris’s La Sante prison in the presence of the jail’s director, and discussed the...
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