[ISN] Nicolas Sarkozy's party denies hacking Dominique Strauss-Kahn's phone

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/8917662/Nicolas-Sarkozys-party-denies-hacking-Dominique-Strauss-Kahns-phone.html

Telegraph
26 Nov 2011

The article by Edward Jay Epstein, published in the New York Review of 
Books, raised the question of whether a Blackberry phone belonging to 
Dominique Strauss-Kahn might have been being tapped by his political 
opponents at the time he was arrested in May on charges of sexually 
assaulting a hotel maid.

Prosecutors in New York later dropped criminal charges against Mr 
Strauss-Kahn, citing doubts about the credibility of the maid Nafissatou 
Diallo, who continues with a civil case.

At the time of his arrest, Mr Strauss-Kahn - a former Socialist finance 
minister - was the front-runner to win France's presidential elections 
next year and unseat Mr Sarkozy. He was forced to resign his IMF post as 
a result of the scandal, which also ended his presidential prospects.

The secretary-general of the UMP, Jean-Francois Cope, said the 
allegations were an obvious manipulation.

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