A gray area which justice and investigators take advantage of, skilfully playing with the yellow line of professional secrecy and the secrecy of journalists' sources.
During the case of the wiretapping of Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Herzog and magistrate Gilbert Azibert, several reports emerged in the form of transcripts of conversations, intercepted on the line of some of these protagonists, with journalists, in particular du
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These so-called indirect tapping were entered in the file, with full information on the line number, the press title concerned, or even the gender of the journalists tapped.
They were carried out between March 7 and 9, 2014, at the height of the “wiretapping” scandal and while a judicial investigation is open, telescoping that of the Libyan case and the preliminary investigation aimed at exploiting the fadettes lawyers.
So many cases, therefore, which spare neither the profession of lawyer nor that of journalist
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