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Monday, September 5, 2011

Sarkozy accused of spying on the "Le Monde" Newspaper


Revealed "Le Monde" for the French intelligence spying on one of its journalists while covering a scandal Lillian Betancourt to find out its sources, said that the investigating judge showed documents proving that intelligence ordered the network, "Orange" for mobile phones to provide detailed records of calls reporter Gerard davit with the detection geographical movements.
The newspaper said the intelligence was discovered after a brief period of espionage in July 2010 that the source is the adviser to the Ministry of Justice, to be a sudden reduction in rank and transferred to work in French Guiana. May put this crisis, French President Nicolas Sarkozy in trouble undesirable consequences.
The affair began, "Betancourt" in 2010 in the form of a family dispute between the heir of companies, "L'Oreal" giant in the field of cosmetics Lillian Betancourt and her daughter, before turning it into a series of scandals affecting the highest levels of the French state, where extended it to open investigations into the crimes of illegal party funding, and tax evasion and money laundering, with the dumping of the close relationship between Ms. Betancourt with Sarkozy and senior member of the government, particularly Justice Minister Eric Wirth, who revealed the movements davit his involvement in the case is put to the attention of intelligence.
And started the newspaper "Le Monde", in last September, filed a lawsuit after the violation of the intelligence of the French law, which guarantees the protection of press sources, confirming that the targeting of davit and collect personal information from the phone is against the law. And it comes amid interest from the public issue of the government's targeting of the reporters of the scandal to force the sources not to reveal what they have, which is what the press described as "a scandal within the scandal."
And published "Le Monde," on its front page, a scathing article emphasized that the continuation of the government's targeting of journalists suggests that the status of suspicious transactions are at the top French Authority, regarding it as the Elysee Palace where the management of these operations.

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