French PM questioned in smear scandal investigation

Judges were today questioning the French prime minister over his role in a suspected scheme to smear presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy and other French personalities.

The so-called Clearstream affair has been among France's biggest political dramas of 2006, involving cooked-up allegations that Sarkozy had secret bank accounts and a veteran spy who was tasked with probing whether there was any truth to the claims.