Two DGSI police officers in custody for having provided information to a journalist

Europe 1 with AFP 3:02 p.m., June 23, 2022

Former and current police officers from the General Directorate of Internal Security, suspected of having provided confidential information to journalist Alex Jordanov, author of a book-investigation on the DGSI, were placed in police custody on Wednesday, indicated a source familiar with the matter on Thursday.

The hearings, still in progress in the premises of the DGSI, are part of a case of "compromise of national defense secrecy", said this source.

The police are suspected of having "fed" Alex Jordanov, also in police custody, who published in 2019

 (New World editions), continued the source.

Journalist's home searched

In his book, the journalist unveils "the successes" and "failures" of domestic intelligence in the fight against terrorism through the stories of several DGSI officers.

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, his home was searched for several hours on Monday.

He was heard in February 2020 in an open hearing by the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police for suspicion of violation of defense secrecy.

Alex Jordanov was briefly taken hostage in 2004 in Iraq while working at the CAPA agency and producing a subject for Canal+.