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| NSA spying: France 'will not tolerate' threat to security | |
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| France "will not tolerate" acts that threaten its security, President Francois Hollande says, after Wikileaks revealed that the US spied on him and his two predecessors. | |
| A statement from the French presidency (in French) said the US must respect a promise not to spy on French leaders. | |
| Wikileaks says US spies eavesdropped on Mr Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac between 2006-12. | |
| The US said it would not comment "specific intelligence allegations". | |
| Ned Price, a spokesman for the US National Security Council, added that the US was "not targeting and will not target" the communications of Mr Hollande". | |
| The US National Security Agency (NSA) has previously been accused of spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and on Brazilian and Mexican leaders. | |
| Wikileaks began publishing the files on Tuesday, under the heading "Espionnage Elysee" - a reference to the French presidential palace. | |
| It said the secret files "derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications" of the three French presidents as well as French ministers and the ambassador to the US. | |
| The French statement came after an emergency meeting of security chiefs in Paris. |