In a tapped phone conversation in July, Brigitte Macron, wife of France’s president, told paparazzi agency boss Michèle Marchand, an influential PR fixer to politicians who is formally placed under investigation for witness tampering and criminal conspiracy in a case related to a probe into suspected Libyan funding of former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign, that she was to contact her security officer for help “if you get bother”. After she encouraged Marchand to “stay firm” following the latter's release from jail, Brigitte Macron also deplored the “terrible” judicial treatment of Sarkozy. Fabrice Arfi, Karl Laske and Antton Rouget report.
Transcripts of a tapped phone conversation in July to which Mediapart has gained access reveal how Brigitte Macron, wife of the French president, told Michèle Marchand, the head of a paparazzi agency who is under investigation for witness tampering and criminal conspiracy in a case related to the suspected Libyan funding of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, that she should “stay firm” and “keep going” following her release from prison.
