No, this is not an episode of the Bureau of Legends . The Ministry of the Armed Forces has taken legal action against a French officer for "breach of security", announced the Minister, Florence Parly, this Sunday.
"What I can confirm is that a senior officer is subject to legal proceedings for breach of security," she simply said, without giving further details, on the show " Le Grand Rendez-vous ”by Europe 1 radio, the CNews channel and the daily Les Echos, this Sunday.
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According to Europe 1, this officer, a lieutenant-colonel stationed on a NATO base in Italy, was recently indicted for treason for the benefit of Russia. He is suspected of having provided highly sensitive documents to the Russian secret services, the radio said. The man was arrested by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) as he was preparing to return to Italy at the end of his vacation in France and placed in pre-trial detention in the prison of Health in Paris, pursues Europe 1.
"It is France which took the initiative of this legal procedure", indicated Florence Parly. "We have taken all the protective measures that were necessary and now it is necessary that the justice can do its work in the respect of the secrecy of the instruction", she added without further details on the merits of the. case.
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