The French prime minister's office has admitted to tipping off prosecutors about possible leaks to the website Mediapart - whose offices police attempted to search on Monday.
It's generated a major row about the journalists' right to keep their sources private - in a case that could prove very embarrassing to the French President.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.

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