After reportedly accusing former justice minister and current member of the European Parliament Rachida Dati of spreading affair rumors , French President Nicolas Sarkozy has now accused "Anglo-Saxon financiers" of starting the rumors, the Daily Mail reports .

Sarkozy's spokesman Pierre Charon called for a "campaign of terror" to find the people who started the rumors and said, "We shall find out if there has now been some kind of organised plot involving financial movements. The fact that these rumors were spread in the newspapers in Britain, Germany and Switzerland makes us think of a conspiracy while France is preparing to take over the presidency of the G20 in 2011."

Charon added, "We are going to war on these ignominious reports. We want to take things as far as we can to make sure this will never happen again. We want those who tried to spread fear to feel fear themselves."