If you had actually read the linked document, you would realize that it suggests that the motives of the French in overthrowing Gaddafi was to prevent him intro

If you had actually read the linked document, you would realize that it suggests that the motives of the French in overthrowing Gaddafi was to prevent him introducing a new currency in Francophone African countries, which would have loosened France's grip on them. No one is suggesting Libya was a French colony.