Recruitment of agents, ancient history? Not so sure. “What the specialists say is that there is no real reason why what existed yesterday no longer exists today, even to a lesser extent,” says Etienne Girard, editor-in-chief of Société de L’Express service. In the run-up to the 2002 presidential election, a Russian emissary even showed interest in financing the campaign of a young fifty-year-old: François Bayrou.
Even recently, relations between Alexandre Benalla and a Russian intermediary attracted the attention of the national financial prosecutor’s office, which opened an investigation. Did Emmanuel Macron’s former special advisor represent a prime target for Moscow? This third and final episode can be found on our site, and all our social networks.
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