Sarkozy arrested over Libya cash - Why not here?

The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was held in police custody yesterday for questioning on allegations that Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya funded for his 2007 election campaign.

Mr Sarkozy, the Élysée Palace incumbent from 2007 to 2012, has always denied receiving any illicit campaign funding and has dismissed the allegations about Libyan support as “grotesque”.