France and Libya had an economic relationship due to trade of raw materials, but also rivalry due to French influence in North Africa. One source of tension was the Aouzou Strip border region rich in uranium, which Libya annexed in 1976 but Chad later reclaimed, likely with French support. Gaddafi was also unhappy with French presence in Niger, another source of uranium. When the Arab Spring began in 2011, France was quick to attack Gaddafi, possibly due to past tensions and Gaddafi's new alliances with Russia and Italy.

1. France
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Gaddafi
Iakovos Alhadeff

2. Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya had economic relations with France, because
Southern Europe is the ideal importer of Northern Africa’s raw materials.
But there was also traditional rivalry between the two countries, because
Colonel Gaddafi did not like France’s great influence over North Africa.
One of the thorns in the French-Libyan relations was that Libya wanted to
annex the rich in uranium Aouzou Strip at the Libyan-Chad borders.
France imports most of her uranium from North Africa, and France and
Gaddafi were at the opposite sides during the wars between Libya and Chad
and during Chad’s civil war. Libya managed to annex the Aouzou Strip in
1976, but Chad’s army pushed the Libyan army away in 1987, I guess with
French support too.
Map 1 Aouzou Strip

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Libya_under_Muammar
_Gaddafi#/media/File:Map_of_Aouzou_stip_chad.PNG
I guess that Gaddafi was not happy with the French present in Niger either.
France gets most of her uranium from Niger.

4. Map 2
It is not a coincidence that when in 2011 the Arab Spring broke, the French
were the first ones to attack Gaddafi. Sometime before the attack, during his
public appearances in Libya, Gaddafi was saying that he had given money to
Sarkozy, and that Sarkozy was a retard.
The alliance between Gaddafi, Berluskoni and Putin at the time definitely
played a role in France’s decision to attack Libya. It was the time that
Berluskoni and Putin had agreed on the South Stream Pipeline, and the
Italian ENI would get a larges take in this project. The Italian public is ENI’s
largest shareholder. Now things have changed, because the South Stream
Pipeline has been cancelled, and it was replaced by the Nord Stream 2
Pipeline. In Nord Stream 2 the Russians gave a stake to the French (ENGIE)
but they left the Italians out (ENI), and the Italians are not very happy.