France launches emissions-cheating probe into VW: source

France has launched a probe into whether Volkswagen cheated on car emissions in France as it did in the United States, a source close to the French Economy Ministry said on Wednesday. "Following the recognized fraud of a carmarker in the United States ... There is a probe from the DGCCRF (the Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control) that started on Friday and whose goal is to assess if Volkswagen had similar practices (in France)," the source said.