France's President Francois Hollande arrives at an European Union leaders summit in Brussels March 20, 2014. REUTERS/Yves Herman
PARIS (Reuters) - A row over judicial phone-tapping of Nicolas Sarkozy escalated on Friday as French President Francois Hollande denounced his predecessor's allegation that judges were acting like secret police from ex-communist East Germany.
Sarkozy, expected to run for re-election in 2017, wrote in Le Figaro newspaper that judges who ordered the tapping of his phone as part of an investigation into alleged illegal campaign financing had "broken fundamental principles" of justice.
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