French candidates battle scandal as polling day looms - Yahoo! News Singapore

French candidates battle scandal as polling day looms - Yahoo! News Singapore ;... FAKES or REALLY TRUE image and RELATED CONTENT; ...Saleh now lives in France, and his lawyer Pierre Haik sent AFP a statement expressing "grave reservations" over the authenticity of the note.

Speaking to AFP from his exile in Doha, the capital of Qatar, Libya's former foreign intelligence chief Moussa Koussa branded the note a fake.

"All these allegations are false," he said.

Socialist Arnaud Montebourg, who came third in the party's primary last year, said "the only response is to immediately launch an investigation."