Dead man found at TF1 exec’s flat

A senior executive at TF1, France's biggest private TV broadcaster, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a corpse was discovered in his apartment.

Patrick Binet, who heads TF1 International, is also being investigated for alleged violation of French narcotics laws, as the deceased - a 40-year-old civil servant at the culture ministry - may have suffered an overdose.

Cocaine and GHB were also found in the apartment.

Binet was taken into custody on Thursday after the discovery of the body of a man who apparently spent the previous evening with him in his apartment in the Marais district of Paris.

A third man, in his 30s, who also spend the evening with the two, was questioned but later released without charge.