Val says double agents at the Elysée Palace, secret cameras, moles ( we have those by the tons) you struggle to believe what goes on in the top political echelons
Security services at France's presidential palace believe a "Sarkozy mole" took a controversial, stolen photo of François Hollande and Julie Gayet in the grounds of the Elysée, it was reported on Wednesday.
The picture of Mr Hollande and Miss Gayet, an actress and producer, sitting side by side within the walls of the Elysée compound, was published last Friday in Voici, leading the glossy weekly to dub her France's "quasi-official first lady".
The photo raised questions over security and the right to a private life, and cast a pall of paranoia over the Elysée, with a furious Mr Hollande launching a probe into how such an intimate shot was obtained.
While Voici insisted the image had neither been taken from inside the Elysée nor by a drone overhead, presidential security is convinced otherwise.
According to Le Canard Echaîné, the satirical and investigative weekly, the probe has homed in on five potential "moles" – four of them appointed at the Elysée during the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative former French president. By my favourite Telegraph reporter Henry Samuel.
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