BERLIN, June 4 (UPI) -- A formal inquiry into whether German Chancellor Angela Merkel's telephone was tapped by the U.S. National Security Agency will begin, a German prosecutor said Wednesday.
Chief federal prosecutor Harald Range told legislators an investigation into the allegations would be opened, but the inquiry will be restricted to alleged bugging of Merkel's cellphone. It will not investigate claims the NSA engaged in wide-scale spying on data connections and corporations in Germany.