PARISFrench presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's team blasted a "massive and coordinated hacking attack" against his campaign after a flood of internal documents were released online barely 24 hours before the election. The centrist candidate's furious staff said the release late Friday of thousands of emails, accounting documents and other files was an attempt at "democratic destabilisation, like that seen during the last presidential campaign in the United States". Hillary Clinton has alleged Russian hacking of her campaign's emails was partly to blame for her defeat in last year's US presidential election to Donald Trump. "Clearly, the documents arising from the hacking are all lawful and show the normal functioning of a presidential campaign," aides said in a statement. EXTREMISTSenior Le Pen aide Florian Philippot suggested on Twitter that the leak might contain information that the media had deliberately suppressed.

Source: Daily Nation May 06, 2017 07:41 UTC