Notification to the French Government of case brought by Nicolas Sarkozy.

The ECHR has communicated to the Government of France the application Sarkozy v. France. This application is related to two other applications which have also been communicated to the Government: Herzog v. France and Ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris v. France.

The case concerns the use of transcripts from conversations between the applicant and his lawyer, recorded while their telephones were being tapped in the so-called “affaire des écoutes” (“telephonetapping case”).

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