BFM TV reports that French presidential candidate Francois Fillon accused the head of state Francois Hollande of overseeing his political opponents and listening to their phones.

Fillon said this, commenting on the publication in the media of the documents of the investigation, whose actor is himself: "We have newspapers that receive documents 48 hours after they were seized by investigators, for example from my office. Who gives them to them? State services ". The politician expressed the opinion that Olland manipulated the press to crack down on rivals.

It is noted that while Fillon referred to an excerpt from a journalistic investigation that will be published in France in the coming days. It says that the president created in the Elysee Palace a "shadow cabinet".

Under his order, the police listened to the phones of his political opponents, including Fillon himself and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who left the election race almost at the very beginning.

Fillon said: "I officially demand an investigation into the facts in this book. If the written one turns out to be true, then it is a question of the state scandal ".

In the Elysee Palace immediately reacted to these charges, calling them false and baseless.