The pope of the press people, Mimi Marchand, was taken into custody on Friday evening.
Indicted in early June in a part of the investigation into suspicion of Libyan financing of the 2007 presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy, it would not have respected its judicial control.
A wiretap would have established that she spoke to someone with whom she was not allowed to come into contact, according to a judicial source.
Mimi Marchand was imprisoned by a freedoms and detention judge after a hearing Friday afternoon.
Mimi Marchand was indicted on June 5 for “witness tampering” and “criminal association with a view to committing an organized gang fraud”.
His judicial control provided for a ban on contact with several people, including the former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer Thierry Herzog, and the editorial director of the JDD and Paris Match, Hervé Gattegno.
An interview with Ziad Takieddine
The investigation follows an interview given last November by businessman Ziad Takieddine to a journalist from the weekly Paris Match, who had visited Lebanon with a photographer from BestImage, Ms. Marchand's agency. .
In this interview, Mr. Takieddine withdrew his statements against Nicolas Sarkozy, while he accused him for years of having received money for his 2007 presidential campaign from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Two months later, questioned by the investigating judges in charge of the Libyan case, the Franco-Lebanese intermediary, known for his versatility, claimed that his words had been "distorted" by Paris Match who, he added, " belongs to a friend of Sarkozy ”.
Four other people suspected of having taken part in the organization of this controversial interview have been indicted.
Among them, the advertiser Arnaud de la Villesbrunne, the businessman Pierre Reynaud and Noël Dubus, a man already convicted of fraud.
The photographer author of the photo and video report, Sébastien Valiela, was heard Tuesday as a "free suspect" in this investigation.
