Overview
- The Paris prosecutor classified without further action the complaint filed by Thomas Legrand and Patrick Cohen over a covertly recorded conversation published by L’Incorrect.
- Investigators said they could not identify who made the recording because the protection of journalistic sources applies to the case.
- Legrand and Cohen said they will pursue other legal avenues, arguing they were targets of malicious spying and manipulation intended to damage public broadcasting.
- The original probe covered alleged invasion of privacy and the dissemination of false information linked to a September video that ignited a wider controversy.
- A separate investigation is ongoing into a December disclosure of another private conversation involving Legrand and former France Inter head Laurence Bloch, and the parliamentary inquiry into public-broadcaster neutrality continues as L’Incorrect editor Arthur de Watrigant publicly welcomed the case’s closure.