Figures-— Frenchies had a lot of investment in ELF Aquitaine oil wells which Qadaffi had been getting a piece of and he later eventually nationalized... and.... Hitlery got them back for the Frenchies through the “Arab Spring” coup she and pals in the Clowns planned. The French loved this.
Oh, the other reason for the killing of Qadaffi in the “Arab Spring” was because he was coining gold coins sold on the market through Libya- NOT the City of London. Some FReepers here may know what happened to Libya’s gold reserves— as to who got them or the control... could be the French.
All of the above was why the Frenchies would not allow US aircraft to go over their airspace to attack their golden goose. It was Libyans who blew up Pan Am 103, for which Qadaffi later paid victims families. That flight had the deputy see eye ehh chief of Beirut station as well as a number of other US intel people.
Frenchies— love the Patton quote about the French. So JoeBama buddies up to Macron (both of them very “french” iykwhat i mean).
Yes, the French were very heavily invested in North Africa (Libya; Algeria; Morocco).