It is the epilogue to a judicial battle which started nearly seven years ago in the spring of 2012 and which has ended in Mediapart's favour. Having investigated since July 2011 the links forged by Nicolas Sarkozy and his close entourage with the Libyan dictatorship and its leader Muammar Gaddafi, on April 28th 2012 Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske revealed the existence of an official Libyan document that had been saved from the archives after the regime's downfall in 2011.