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Two French journalists arrested for blackmailing Moroccan king
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The Paris prosecutor\'s office and a lawyer for Morocco\'s King Mohammed VI say two French journalists have been arrested in France for allegedly trying to blackmail the monarch.
The Paris prosecutor's office and a lawyer for Morocco's King Mohammed VI say two French journalists have been arrested in France for allegedly trying to blackmail the monarch.
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The prosecutor's office said the two, Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, remained in detention on Friday.
Eric Dupont-Moretti, a lawyer for the king, told RTL radio on Thursady that Laurent claimed he and Graciet were writing a compromising book about the monarch and demanded 3 million euros (USD 3.4 million) to keep it unpublished.
Dupont-Moretti said the Moroccan leadership filed a lawsuit in Paris and the arrests came after a sting operation.
The king has built a reputation as a moderate, modern leader, though journalists in Morocco have been jailed for criticizing him.
Laurent and Graciet co-wrote a book in 2012 about the king.
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