Royal renews 'dirty tricks' plea against Sarkozy - by Caroline Wyatt
French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has called on President Jacques Chirac to restore order in the presidential election campaign. She says her rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, has mounted dirty tricks and personal attacks on her. The Socialists allege that Mr Sarkozy ordered the domestic intelligence agency to dig dirt on the former head of Greenpeace France, Bruno Rebelle.
The Socialists are calling for Mr Sarkozy, the centre right UMP candidate, to resign as interior minister. They say he misused his powers of office by ordering the domestic intelligence agency to investigate his rival's campaign team. The man they were apparently interested in was a former director of Greenpeace in France, who now advises Segolene Royal on the environment.
Ms Royal's brother, Antoine, now claims that French intelligence also investigated him after he revealed that another brother, Gerard, was a French secret agent who helped blow up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985.
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