The reports published in French daily Le Mondeand German weekly Der Spiegel claim that the US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly monitored tens of millions of phone calls in France and hacked into former Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s email account. They come on top of revelations already leaked by Snowden and published in June that the US had a vast, secret programme called PRISM to monitor internet users, which French prosecutors are already investigating.
French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was ‘deeply shocked’ by the revelations — the same word used by interior minister Manuel Valls — and demanded an explanation from US authorities.
‘It’s incredible that an allied country like the United States at this point goes as far as spying on private communications that have no strategic justification, no justification on the basis of national defence,’ he told journalists in Copenhagen.
French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, on a trip to Luxembourg for a meeting with his EU counterparts, said the US ambassador had been summoned to his ministry for a meeting
Monday morning.
French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was ‘deeply shocked’ by the revelations — the same word used by interior minister Manuel Valls — and demanded an explanation from US authorities.
‘It’s incredible that an allied country like the United States at this point goes as far as spying on private communications that have no strategic justification, no justification on the basis of national defence,’ he told journalists in Copenhagen.
French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, on a trip to Luxembourg for a meeting with his EU counterparts, said the US ambassador had been summoned to his ministry for a meeting
Monday morning.