Parliamentarians?
Caution should be advised.
A phone is quickly hacked.
The universities ?
Distrust, too.
Malicious doctoral students could take advantage of their access to search establishment databases.
Aeronautics companies?
They find themselves primarily concerned.
This is evidenced by the cyberattacks against Airbus in 2019, suspected of having been piloted from China.
France, nest of spies
, an investigation carried out with great care - it nevertheless sometimes draws too hasty conclusions - paints an alarming picture: for its positions or its industrial resources, France arouses the interest or desire of certain people. foreign countries.
First and foremost, Russia and China.
This is naturally not a scoop, but the testimonies collected in this documentary resemble proof.
Which also confirms how realistic
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Institution leaders therefore describe how cautiously they now check the profiles of doctoral candidates with a link to China.
Particularly in the Brest region, which concentrates laboratories and companies in the defense sector.
A Parisian journalist specializing in intelligence then describes the attempts of a Russian military attaché to curry favor with him.
The agent hoped, in exchange, for information.
It must be believed that this one was not the second sharpest knife in the Russian services: he was caught in the middle of an attempted corruption a few years later, in Slovakia...
But now is also the time for cyber attacks.
An area where, according to a former senior officer of our intelligence, France is far from being at the forefront.
We are surprised by this admission, but it is undoubtedly intended to alert the public authorities.
Another interesting chapter, that of Haute-Savoie.
This hidden border region had been chosen by Russian spies as a base camp for operations throughout Europe.
This is where the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in 2018, in England, was organized, for example.
The ex-agent who went to the West had survived.
The investigation becomes particularly gripping when the subject of the two dissidents who found refuge on French territory opens up.
Vladimir Ossetchkine, first.
A businessman turned human rights activist who spent time in Russian jails and now lives in France.
Uncomfortable situation
The Azerbaijani Mahammad Mirzali attracted the wrath of Baku because of his denunciations of the corruption of power in videos with a biting tone.
He will probably not have been surprised to see that President Ilham Aliev, in office for two decades, has just been re-elected with 90% of the votes.
For his safety, the thirty-year-old left his country in 2016 and joined France.
This did not protect him from danger.
He survived - he still bears the marks - several assassination attempts, in 2020 and 2021, in the city of Nantes.
Mahammad Mirzali is now protected by a solid police force.
But he says he continues to live in fear of a new attack.
And confides, another consequence of his uncomfortable situation, struggling to find work.
The goodwill of employers, who fear for the serenity or security of their activities, quickly fades.
A pernicious double punishment for this young man condemned to exile.