French ex-FM to sue against Nicolas Sarkozy for NATO-led military campaign in Libya
French ex-Foreign Minister Roland Dumas and lawyer Jacques Verges are intended to sue against Nicolas Sarkozy of France for crimes against humanity over the NATO-led military campaign in Libya, news.com writes.
A Libyan justice ministry official Ibrahim Boukhzam told reporters in Tripoli that Jacques Verges and Roland Dumas had offered to represent families who were victims of the NATO bombing campaign.
"The two lawyers are going to file a complaint in the French courts in the name of the Libyan families," Boukhzam said, at a press conference on Sunday attended by 30 representatives of the families.
Verges, whose past clients include Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Carlos the Jackal, denounced a "French state led by hoodlums and killers.
"We are going to break the wall of silence," he added.
Dumas, a former socialist minister, said the NATO mission, which was meant to protect civilians, was in fact killing them.