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EDF found guilty of spying on Greenpeace

Posted by Louise Hutchins - 10 November 2011 at 6:28pm - 5 Comments

by. Credit: Greenpeace

EDF compiled dossiers on our activists in Britain

So it turns out we’re not paranoid then – the French courts today convicted EDF, the French nuclear giant of spying on our colleagues in the French Greenpeace office. They were hacking their computers, putting viruses into their networks and compiling dossiers of our activists here in Britain.

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Energy giant EDF found guilty of spying on Greenpeace

10 November, 2011

Energy Giant EDF has today been found guilty of spying on Greenpeace.

At 14.00hours French Judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez pronounced a verdict of guilty in the trial of French state owned energy giant EDF, which was accused of industrial scale espionage against Greenpeace. She sentenced EDF executive Pierre-Paul François to 3 years imprisonment, with 30 months suspended and Pascal Durieux 3 years imprisonment, two years suspended and a 10,000 Euro fine for commissioning the spying operation.

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