Real manipulation or spy victim? The investigations will have to shed light on the case of a accused Bercy official last December and placed under judicial supervision, according to the information presented on Wednesday. It is suspected that the man in question is “intelligence with a foreign power”, “delivery to foreign information on fundamental interest for the nation” and “exercise of activities to learn about the fundamental interests of the nation for a foreign power,” said the Office of the Prosecutor of Paris. In other words, it is processed by espionage.
He would have been “in regular contact with a person of Algerian nationality who works at the Consulate of Algeria in Créteil”, and “would have transmitted to him personal information and in asylum requests” with respect to the Algiers and, in particular, “notorious opponents of the political regime,” said the public prosecutor. A case …