It was only the latest plot twist in a long, bitter campaign defined by rancor and uncertainty.
The day before France’s most momentous presidential election in recent history, authorities were still investigating the “massive and coordinated piracy action” that independent candidate Emmanuel Macron reported just minutes before the campaign’s official end Friday night.
The data dump, the Macron campaign said, involved thousands of nonincriminating emails and other internal communications — some of which, the campaign insisted, were fake.
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