Former French Prime Minister François Fillon:

Former French Prime Minister François Fillon: Have I faced foreign interference in my political life, especially when I was in government? Yes, I did. Mostly it was from a friend and ally, which is the United States. Your committee is working on the issue of foreign interference. I can tell you that, for example, President Sarkozy and I were wiretapped by the National Security Agency for five years. We found out about it when American intelligence documents were leaked. Everyone focused on the fact that the National Security Agency was wiretapping Mrs. Merkel, but it was also wiretapping all members of the French government and certainly other European countries. This is actually a fairly common practice among the major powers. But there is one form of American interference that I do not agree with and that I consider the most serious in terms of its consequences for the economic life of our country, and that is the principle of extraterritoriality of American justice, which allows ... Source: Slavyangrad