You have a point here. The recordings in France were made by the police as part of the investigation, as for the leaks, it's not clear. Other tapes, this time r

You have a point here. The recordings in France were made by the police as part of the investigation, as for the leaks, it's not clear. Other tapes, this time recorded by a former advisor, were leaked to right-wing newspapers and websites, possibly as a symptom of internal struggle. The police recordings being leaked may be due to the work of the Mediapart website, leaked by the current government before the upcoming elections, leaked by left-wing sympathizers in the police/justice, leaked by right-wing opponents of Sarkozy... your choice. I doubt any foreign state plays a role there. The situation in Turkey is much more worrying though. That's different competing conspiracies.