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PARIS, June 4 ― One of the most powerful figures in the French paparazzi business and a journalist from Paris Match magazine were detained yesterday over allegations of witness tampering, sources close to the case told AFP. Mimi Marchand, who runs the BestImage agency, was taken into custody for...

PARIS, June 4 ― One of the most powerful figures in the French paparazzi business and a journalist frommagazine were detained yesterday over allegations of witness tampering, sources close to the case told AFP.

Marchand, known widely as “Mimi”, works closely with a host of rich and powerful figures from the worlds of politics and entertainment, including President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte. Afterwards, speaking to French investigators, Takieddine changed his story again, retracting what he had told Paris Match and saying that his words had been “deformed”.

Reporters Without Borders chief Christophe Deloire tweeted that it was “obviously disporportionate” that five armed officers had banged on the door of a journalist in front of their small child and the arrest was part of a “deplorable legal process”.interview, Takieddine had always alleged that he delivered suitcases stuffed with €5 million in cash from Tripoli to Sarkozy's chief of staff in 2006 and 2007.

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