Overview
- Legrand lodged complaints with the Paris prosecutor on December 24 alleging illegal recording, unlawful use of an illicit recording, and dissemination of false news.
- A complaint against X targets the covert taping of his December 15 conversation with former France Inter head Laurence Bloch, while a separate filing names Europe 1 and CNews for relaying and allegedly falsifying it.
- Legrand’s lawyer cites a December 16 on‑air remark by CNews host Pascal Praud—“Everything we say is recorded”—as indicating possession of the recording.
- The meeting in question occurred in a brasserie in Paris’s 14th arrondissement; Legrand told a National Assembly inquiry their discussion was captured without consent and called it espionage.
- Bloch says she intends to file a complaint, and the new case unfolds alongside an existing Paris probe into a September clandestine video published by L’Incorrect.