Sarkozy’s 10-year-old son gets threat calls

“It’s absolutely shocking and revolting,” Alliot-Marie told Europe-1 radio. “There are people who are unbalanced, who think they’re clever, who want to blackmail and use these kinds of methods.”

A report on the website of newsweekly Le Point said two men, aged 21 and 22, would be tried next month for allegedly having placed the calls.

Alliot-Marie did not refer to those or other details in the Le Point report, and they could not immediately be confirmed.

Le Point’s website said one of the suspects, an employee of French cellphone operator Orange, obtained in August a copy of the company’s celebrity client list, which gave Cecilia Sarkozy’s number. He passed the number on to a friend, a firefighter, who spoke to Louis Sarkozy on several occasions, the report said.