Union leader finds ‘bug’ in car
One of France's top union leaders says he found a 'listening device' in his car after his garage was broken into.
An investigation has been launched after one of France's top union leaders discovered a suspected bug in his car after his garage was broken into.
Bernard Thibault, secretary-general of the CGT trade union, filed a complaint for violation of his home after finding the suspect device in his official car Wednesday morning.
Public prosecutor Jean-Francois Pascal said: "We do not know what it is. It is possibly a listening or tracking device.”
Mr Thibault added: “It was not clearly visible and nothing was done to make it visible, but we found it anyway.
"This device in my car did not get there by accident.”
Thibault said he wanted "explanations on the reasons and the motives”.
Earlier the CGT put out a statement saying that Thibault had reported the break-in at his garage and the presence of "electronic equipment installed in the vehicle's systems."
In February 2006 Thibault found a pig's head pierced with a sword on the front door of his home, without any note or explanation.
The inquiry comes a month after another case of suspected espionage against the far-left politician Olivier Besancenot, leader of the League of Revolutionary Communists (LCR).
According to the weekly L'Express newspaper, Besancenot has complained of being spied upon between October 2007 and January 2008 by a private intelligence agency.
Photo: Kenju-Baptiste Oikawa
