journalists

Bernard Bernard Squarcini, ex-head of the DCRI, is to face trial for seizing phone records of a journalist investigating Bettencourt affair.

President Francois Hollande said the journalists, French radio station Europe 1's Didier Francois and Edouard Elias, should be freed immediately.

Two French journalists who were smuggled out of Syria after being trapped for nine days in the war-torn country's town have arrived back in France.