France Inter victim of a hack at the time of the announcement of the results of the first round

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The antenna of France Inter was hacked on Sunday April 10, when the first results of the first round of the presidential election were announced. Listening interference and a political message were broadcast on its Paris-Est FM network, on the frequency 87.8MHz.

Around 8 p.m., when the first percentages and analyzes of the first round are traditionally broadcast, a “pirate transmitter blew the station’s frequency”, a prohibited technique, explains the management of France Inter. A speech of a few minutes against “politicians, technocrats or even journalists” has been diffused “endlessly” for almost two hours.

The radio said that “only the network covering the 20th arrondissement of Paris was concerned”. A localized hack which she realized thanks to a tweet from a listener. No complaints have been forwarded to management. “We We are absolutely sorry and we are doing everything to understand what happened and prevent it from happening again”Laurence Bloch, director of France Inter, said on Twitter on Sunday evening.

Antoine Chao, reporter for the channel, tells, on the same social network, his surprise at listening to the pirate message broadcast live. He managed to record a good part of it: “The piracy must have started around 8 p.m., I only turned on my FM radio around 8:10 p.m. and then started recording in my kitchen. I couldn’t believe it… The fifteen-minute pirate program was running in loop, France Inter resumed around 10:20 p.m. “.

Posted on the Soundcloud sound platform, Antoine Chao’s recording features a metallic voice, an agonizing tone and music, interspersed with sound clips reminiscent of reportage archives.

At the same time, in Lyon, the program of an “anti-France radio” was broadcast on the 100 MHz frequency of the FM band.


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