A military engineer is to go on trial next year accused of leaking defence secrets to a journalist who wrote an article on France’s military cooperation with its ally Egypt, a source following the case said Thursday.
Investigative website Disclose published an article in 2021 in which it alleged that the Egyptian state used a French counter-intelligence operation in Egypt, codenamed “Sirli”, for a “campaign of arbitrary executions” against smugglers on the Libyan border.
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