, the French equivalent of MI5. Her home in Marseilles, southern France, was also raided by DGSI agents, according to her lawyer. Her arrest, which angered French journalist unions and campaigners for press freedom, comes amid a criminal investigation to determine how she obtained classified documents containing a series of embarrassing revelations for the country's armed forces. A former French soldier has also been arrested, according to Mediapart, another news website. Lavrilleux works for Disclose, an investigative website which){kind=link}
A journalist who revealed confidential documents indicating that Paris may have helped Egypt to carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings has been arrested by French intelligence agents.
Ariane Lavrilleux was detained upon the instruction of an investigating judge by the Direction Generale de la Securite Interieure (DGSI), the French equivalent of MI5. Her home in Marseilles, southern France, was also raided by DGSI agents, according to her lawyer.
Her arrest, which angered French journalist unions and campaigners for press freedom, comes amid a criminal investigation to determine how she obtained classified documents containing a series of embarrassing revelations for the country’s armed forces.
A former French soldier has also been arrested, according to Mediapart, another news website.
Lavrilleux works for Disclose, an investigative website which