C’est l’avocate de Wikileaks qui avait nommé la France parmi les pays où une demande d’asile avait été faite :
 
http://wikileaks.org/Edward-Snowden-submits-asylum.html
 
The requests were made to a number of countries including the Republic of Austria, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of India, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, the Swiss Confederation and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
 
The requests join or update others previously made including to the Republic of Ecuador and the Republic of Iceland.