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Israel Suspected of Hacking French Prime Minister’s Phone – Reports

© REUTERS / Regis DuvignauFrench Prime Minister Manuel Valls attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, July 6, 2016.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, July 6, 2016. - Sputnik International
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The French authorities suspect that Prime Minister Manuel Valls’ cellphone may have been tampered with during his recent visit to Israel, French media outlets reported Thursday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Valls visited Israel on May 21-24 for talks with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a bid to revive the reconciliation process between Israelis and Palestinians.

The prime minister and his staff were asked to submit their cellphones before attending the high-level talks, according to the French newspaper L’Express.

Upon retrieving them, French officials were "shocked" to find that many devices showed signs of an "anomaly," the outlet claimed. One of the phones later broke down.

The suspicious cellphones were handed over for inspection to the National Agency for Computer Security (ANSSI), which declined to comment on the possibility that they had been hacked. A government official told the outlet the security check was standard procedure.

Israel responded to the accusations, saying it considered France a friendly nation who it would never spy on. It denied having tampered with the phones of the French delegation.

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