Hello friends, this is Tristan here, and we have a little bit of bonus content for you.
When I've not been making the global story, I've been making something on the side.
It 's a documentary called The Sarkozy Affair,
and it 's a delve into one of the most bonkers political scandals you 're ever likely to hear.
It's the story of the rise, demise, and attempts to rise again of the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
We hope you enjoy it.
It's 2005 and we're in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
A French minister is on an official visit.
There was a dinner, an evening event at the French embassy.
At the dinner, there are 80 guests.
There are toasts.
This is Libya in the final phase of Muammar Gaddafi's rule.
Colonel Gaddafi, the dictator, doesn't know it yet, but within a few years, he'll be deposed and then murdered by a mob.
But for now, in our story, he's still in charge.
And then some Libyan officials turned up and they said, there's someone we need you to meet.
This is Fabrice Afi, an investigative journalist with the website Mediapart, who's telling us the story.
He says the officials accompany the minister outside to a waiting car.
The minister gets in.
Later, he'll say he doesn't know at first where the car's taking him or who he's heading to meet.
There's no ambassador nor any diplomats with him.