Wife of ex-French president Sarkozy suspect in witness tampering case
The Peninsula
Paris, France:Singer and model Carla Bruni was on Thursday questioned as a suspect in a witness tampering case against her husband, former French pres...
Paris, France: Singer and model Carla Bruni was on Thursday questioned as a suspect in a witness tampering case against her husband, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, two sources said.
Sarkozy, 69, was charged in October 2023 for illegal witness tampering in a case linked to allegations that he took money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund one of his election campaigns.
Investigators suspect that several people close to Sarkozy were involved in pressuring a key witness in that case to retract a statement he made incriminating the former president.
Questioned as a witness in June last year, Franco-Italian Bruni-Sarkozy, 56, is now a suspect.
An investigation showed she deleted all the messages exchanged with French "paparazzi queen" Michele Marchand on the day she was charged with witness tampering in June 2021, the source close to the case and a judicial source told AFP.
