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"Presidency has violated the law protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources," headlines Le Monde, announcing its intention to file formal charges in order to ensure that "the freedom of the press will be strictly respected". The daily claims that the government's counter-espionage services were called in to identify the source — in this case, a highly-placed official — who was the informant for one of its journalists covering the Woerth-Bettencourt affair. "To simply ignore the law was the solution envisioned by the Sarkozy administration to contain the blaze. But just like a wildfire, every day, or nearly so, it just gets bigger. It becomes rather convenient to accuse reporters of starting the fires", reads the editorial of Le Monde.
