You would have had to listen to BBC radio this morning or consult the
websites of The Guardian or Le Monde to learn that after repeated
attempts to hack the Macron campaign’s email during the past few weeks, a number
of documents, some of them apparently compromising for the candidate himself, have
been circulating on the social media in the past few hours via Wikileaks. As the
campaign officially closed at midnight on Friday, the French mainstream radio
and TV stations, we are told by Le Monde, have been advised not to report on these events as they
could influence Sunday’s vote. The Macron camp is saying that the leaked
documents are both real and fake in a deliberate attempt to confuse and mislead.
In the detailed report on the BBC’s Today
programme this morning, Russian hackers were said to be responsible and a parallel
was drawn with the similar hacking of the email of Hilary Clinton’s campaign
manager a few days before the U.S presidential election last November.
We shall no doubt find out more on Monday. For the moment, on
the two remaining elections hoardings outside the primary school where I shall be
voting tomorrow, the posters of the two candidates have been torn to the ground
and rain has reduced them to a mushy pulp.
It is almost as if the slate has been wiped clean for the new departure
in France’s political life that will be revealed on Sunday evening at 8pm.
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