Overview
- Legrand lodged two complaints in Paris on December 24: one against X for illegal recording and another targeting Europe 1 and CNews for conserving, disseminating and using an illicit recording and for spreading false news.
- His lawyer cites a December 16 on-air remark by CNews host Pascal Praud that "everything we say is recorded" as indicating the media held the audio, while alleging the content was falsified.
- Laurence Bloch says she filed her own complaint alleging audiovisual espionage of private life, exploitation of that espionage and interception of correspondence.
- The exchange at issue was a private December 15 conversation in a Paris brasserie that Legrand later described to MPs as espionage during his December 18 hearing before the Assembly commission.
- Separately, prosecutors have opened an investigation into the September clandestine video involving Legrand and Patrick Cohen, assigned to the BRDP and under analysis, with L’Incorrect editor Arthur de Watrigant already heard by investigators.