French newspaper Le Monde has launched a full-scale attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy, accusing him of ordering French intelligence to spy on its reporter covering an illegal party funding scandal.
In a front page article and accompanying editorial on Monday, the paper claimed the president was trying to silence coverage of the Bettencourt affair, which has rocked the government.
Citing police and intelligence sources, the newspaper claimed that the DCRI, the domestic intelligence service, had investigated the source of leaks at the behest of the Elysée palace, breaking the law in the process, and said it intended to sue for breach of confidentiality of sources.
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