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Mr Macrons camp was hacked just days before his run-off victory over Front Nationals Marine Le Pen. <\/p>\n
Thousands of emails sent during the run up to the vote earlier this year have been leaked online and the president has threatened legal action against the culprits. <\/p>\n
A party statement said: En Marche will inform the public prosecutor of this new publication in the complaint already filed and under consideration for fraudulent access, fraudulent extraction of data, breach of correspondence and identity theft. <\/p>\n
Although Julian Assange is not specifically mentioned in the statement, the Wikileaks founder decided to troll the party and goad its leader. <\/p>\n
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Posting on Twitter, he asked: Macron, you want my arrest? <\/p>\n
Let him assume and say, rather than go through a non-party and his attorneys. <\/p>\n
In total, 71,848 emails, 26,506 attachments and 4,493 unique senders are included in the leak. <\/p>\n
However, WikiLeaks said it had confirmed the 21,075 emails were sent or received by addresses associated with the campaign. <\/p>\n
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It is believed that Julian Assange chooses to live in Sweden because the country's media laws are among the world's most protective for journalists <\/p>\n
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READ MORE: Julian Assange's WikiLeaks releases Emmanuel Macron 'campaign emails' <\/p>\n
This is done by checking domain keys used to sign emails. <\/p>\n
More than 21,000 were verified while there are 50,773 emails it could not verify. <\/p>\n
WikiLeaks fans will be able to trawl through the emails which reference Brexit hundreds of times and show Emmanuel Macron and his camp was keeping a keen eye on everything Marine Le Pen did. <\/p>\n
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In an interesting development, multiple emails go against the French tough line on Brexit. <\/p>\n
Whistleblower Julian Assange has spent five years holed up in Londons Ecuadorian embassy after originally moving in to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations. <\/p>\n
These accusations have since been dropped but the Wikileaks founder still fears he will be seized and taken to America to face punishment for releasing secret information if he leaves the building. <\/p>\n
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