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France: Wiretap suspect found dead

01 January 1995

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Pierre-Yves Guézou, a captain in the gendarmerie was found hanged at his home in December. He had just been told that he was to be charged, together with Christian Prouteau, of violating the right to privacy of journalists, lawyers, and opposition politicians. Both were members of the special anti-terrorist cell set up at the Elysée under President Mitterand in 1982. The cell was disbanded in 1988 when it was revealed that they were responsible for the arrest and nine-month imprisonment of three Irish citizens falsely accused of wanting to launch a terrorist attack in Paris.

The lawyer representing the Irish defendants - and the journalist who first accused the Elysée cell of fabricating evidence - discovered that they were among a group of people whose telephones had been tapped illegally.

International Herald Tribune, 13.12.94; Guardian, 13.12.94; see Statewatch vol 3 no 2, for the background.

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