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Inmates in Paris’ La Sante prison have threatened former French President Nicolas Sarkozy with revenge for the death of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a cell phone video from the facility appears to show.
Sarkozy, 70, began serving his five-year sentence on Tuesday after a Paris court found him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to fund his 2007 presidential campaign with money from Gaddafi, against whom he later led a NATO-backed regime change operation which destroyed Libya and led to Gaddafi’s death.
Videos taken from La Sante began circulating on Tuesday, in which purported inmates called out threats and cat-called Sarkozy, who is serving his time in the prison’s solitary confinement wing.
“We will avenge Gaddafi! We know everything, Sarko! Return the billions of dollars!” a man shouted in one video posted on social media. “He’s all alone in his cell. He just arrived… he’s going to have a bad time.”
You should absolutely not be conflicted. Gaddafi was a good man, or at least what he was doing was good for Libya. His fault was believing in democracy too much, creating too much democracy, so much that it was used to de-nuclear the country when he was opposed to it, and that decision ultimately killed him.
If you want to understand the structure of Libya’s democracy you should read: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/01/12/gaddafis-libya-was-africas-most-prosperous-democracy/
Gaddafi should be criticised, but not for being bad, he was committed to his own theories and they were wrong. Democracy is good, don’t get so much of it that your people vote to denuclearise though.
To list off other criticisms, he was also an ardent anti-communist who threw other African revolutionaries under the bus and even occasionally aligned himself with the US (and genuinely thought he could appease them before shit went down).
Now, was Gaddafi more often than not an enemy of imperialism? Was he a genuinely progressive bourgeois-nationalist and a voice for Pan-Africanism? Was Libya (hell, the world) better under his leadership? All yes, of course.
Yeah I figure the “committed to his own theories” (i read his green book) part is what misaligned him with communists.
Could’ve been very different.