On Tuesday, journalist Ariane Lavrilleux's home in Marseille was searched and she was arrested for questioning by agents of the DGSI, France's domestic intelligence agency, Disclose announced on Twitter.
Investigative website Disclose published a series of articles in November 2021 based on hundreds of secret documents.
Information from a French counter-intelligence operation in Egypt, codenamed "Sirli", was used by the Egyptian state for "a campaign of arbitrary killings" against smugglers operating along the Libyan border.
The website denounced an "unacceptable attack on the secrecy of sources" - a view quickly backed by the Society of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
"We fear that the DGSI's actions will undermine the secrecy of the sources," RSF said.
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