Possibly his biggest case ( in terms of number of people involved ) was that of UTA Flight 772 which was sabotaged over the Sahara Desert in 1989 with the loss of 170 lives . Bruguière was instrumental in having six Libyans prosecuted in Paris and convicted '' in absentia '' . However , in the 2001 book '' Manipulations Africaines '' , he was accused by the French journalist Pierre Péan of having deliberately ignored evidence pointing to Lebanon , Syria and Iran in order to put the blame on Libya
UTA Flight 772
UTA Flight 772
Jean-Louis Bruguière