France has demanded an immediate explanation from the US following fresh allegations of “totally unacceptable” mass surveillance of French citizens by Washington’s National Security Agency, writes Hugh Carnegy in Paris.
Laurent Fabius, foreign minister, summoned the US ambassador after the Le Monde newspaper reported yesterday that the NSA spied on French telecoms “in a massive way”, including accessing data on more than 70m telephone conversations in a 30-day period this year.
The report was based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA agent, and co-authored by the US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has revealed details of worldwide electronic surveillance by the US in the Guardian and several other newspapers.
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