Call for the release of Sarkozy by the President of Bulgaria. The reason why Bulgarians are grateful to the former French president
Nicolas Sarkozy, Photo: Lionel Urman / Sipa Press / Profimedia Images
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Friday launched a call for the release of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, given his contribution to the release of Bulgarian nurses from detention in Libya, informs AFP, taken over by Agerpres.
“I address my appeal to European politicians for the release of President Sarkozy” given his “personal commitment to the release” of these nurses, Radev said. The statement was made at the presidency in Sofia on the occasion of the presentation of a decoration to a former British ambassador to Libya.
The five Bulgarian nurses were sentenced to death in Libya, being accused of inoculating 450 children with the HIV virus in this country. They spent eight years in prison, before being released and returning to Bulgaria in July 2007 on the French presidential plane, together with Cécilia Sarkozy, the then wife of the former French president.
Radev said he wanted to pay tribute to a man who “made considerable efforts” and who “today, in prison, needs our support, our sympathy” and “our sincere gratitude”.
The Court of Appeal will examine Sarkozy's request for release on Monday.
He has been in detention for almost three weeks in the Santé prison in Paris after being sentenced to five years in prison with execution, having been found guilty of participating in a criminal organization linked to the financing of his victorious campaign in 2007, when Sarkozy and his associates actively tried to obtain financial support from the Libyan Gaddafi regime.
