The 100,7 studios

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Luxembourg police searched the offices of publicly funded radio station 100,7 on Tuesday morning as part of an inquiry into a scandal surrounding leaked documents from the Chamber of Deputies.



An article posted on the 100,7 website contends that two police officers, who came with a search warrant signed by judge Ernest Nilles, failed to gain access to any documents.

The station's editor-in-chief, Jean-Claude Franck, reportedly told police the documents used by journalists in relation to the 'Chamber Leaks' case had been deleted, and the officers left without taking anything.

Earlier this year, 100,7 uncovered a security flaw on the parliament's website that allowed people to access non-public information, including details about the results of state exams, provisional reports from the Intelligence Control Commission, permits for additional funds for secret services and internal documents to prepare foreign guests' visits.



Chamber president Mars di Bartolomeo initially said no documents relating to security had been accessible, and parliament repeatedly denied reports that the documents had simply been accessible on its website.

The Chamber accused 100,7 of "intrusion", while insisting that the documents were not available through the search function.

It claimed that whoever managed to gain access had attempted to do so multiple times over several days.



The radio station has denied this and said that the documents were freely available to anyone online.

In March, Luxembourg's public prosecutor launched an investigation into 100,7's editor-in-chief, a journalist who worked on the story and an unknown person who reportedly accessed the leaked data.



The Pirate Party and déi Lénk (the Left) have issued a statement denouncing the raid.



"When freedom of the press is being trampled in other countries, [Luxembourg] politicians are always quick to criticise other governments. Here in Luxembourg we also need to defend freedom of the press every day and therefore condemn this raid in the harshest terms," Pirate Party president Sven Clement said in a statement.



The Left argued that the government was shooting the messenger and said in a statement this action was "a further and unacceptable intimidation attempt of the public radio station 100.7 and critical journalists in general."