A speech “directed against politicians, technocrats or even journalists” was broadcast for more than an hour on the Paris Est frequency.
The France Inter antenna was hacked on Sunday evening by listening interference and the broadcast of a “speechon its FM network in Paris Est when the first results of the first round of the presidential election were announced, we learned from the station.
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At the time of the traditional results and analyzes of the first round of the presidential election, a “pirate transmitter blew the station frequency“, a prohibited technique, said the radio to AFP, confirming information from the newspaper Le Monde. According to the daily,a speech of a few minutes directed against politicians, technocrats or journalists” has been diffused “endlessly” for more than an hour and “was still uninterrupted at 9:27 p.m.“.
France Inter “could not identify the content of this speech“. The radio clarified that “only the network covering the 20th arrondissement of Paris was concerned“. “We discovered it through a tweetfrom an individual, added the radio which had not received any claim at 11:00 p.m.
We “we are absolutely sorry and we are doing everything to understand what happened and prevent it from happening again“, tweeted the boss of France Inter, Laurence Bloch, following these disturbances.