DHAKA: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni on Thursday launched legal action over the publication of potentially compromising tapes secretly recorded during his 2007-12 term as French president.

The Straits Times publishes this report.

Lawyers for Sarkozy filed a request with a Paris court for an emergency injunction aimed at preventing further publication of hundreds of hours of conversations and discussions with officials which were recorded by a political advisor, Patrick Buisson, without the couple’s knowledge.

BDST: 1614 HRS, MAR 06, 2014