Against spreading information hacked from the campaign of the centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron. Aides to mr macron say the Hacking Attack was intended to undermine french democracy. James reynolds has sent this report. Emmanuel macron arrived last night for his final interview, assuming that his campaign was basically done. But whilst he was speaking, documents stolen from his team were being circulated online. His campaign had been hacked. Coming in the last hour, his team said this intervention is an attempt to destabilise democracy, as happened in the usa during the last election. Who stole these documents . In the past, Emmanuel Macron said that russian backed hackers were out to get him. One cyber expert said this hack looks different. It is very low level, compared with what they have done in the United States. That was a highly creative and high end Information War mixed with a cyber war. What we are witnessing now is very low end, very amateurish. But many french people brav
Reporting that the candidates in the french president ial election are involved in a Television Debate tonight. How big an issue was security going to be anyway . M tonight. How big an issue was security going to be anyway . It was going to be a very big issues, one of the big issues of this election along with immigration in europe. Every time there has been an attack in paris over the last couple of yea rs, in paris over the last couple of years, that has come to the forefront of peoples minds. I have not been able to monitor that particular debate in the minutes after we had the first reports, i looked at the tv and saw the series of interviews continuing. But even then, even beforehand, one i was watching the candidates, one of them, Marine Le Pen, raised of her own accord the problem of terrorism. It is on the minds and they have to react quickly to this. We are hearing more detail again by the Reuters News Agency quoting a eyewitness saying a man got out of the car on the Champs