Police have arrested a high school student suspected of posting his own translation of the latest Harry Potter book on the Internet weeks ahead of the official French release date, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The 16-year old from the Aix-en-Provence region in southern France was taken into custody after a translation of
"The anticounterfeiting police discovered the affair and contacted Ms. Rowling's lawyer," said a spokeswoman for publisher Gallimard, which handles the French editions of the Harry Potter novels.
Police were not immediately available for comment.
The official French-language version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is scheduled for release on October 26. The translator is
The seventh installment of the Harry Potter saga is the fastest-selling book in history, publishers say, with some 11 million English-language copies sold in the first 24 hours.
Many French book stores are selling the English-language version ahead of the French-language release.
