Paris ( CNN ) -- A French television network said Thursday it has filed a complaint with the Paris public prosecutor alleging identity theft and impersonation related to an interview it broadcast Tuesday with a woman the network identified as Ambassador Lamia Shakkour , Syria 's ambassador to France . During the telephone interview , the woman said she was resigning her post because of the ongoing violence in Syria . `` I can not support the cycle of extreme violence ... ignore the young men , women and children who have died , '' she said . Shortly afterward , Shakkour denied to CNN affiliate BFM-TV that she had made any such statement , alleging in an on-camera interview that she had been impersonated . In its statement Thursday , France 24 said it had invited Shakkour to participate in its debate program . `` This invitation was made via the embassy , which , when contacted by telephone and e-mail , provided a telephone number said to be that of the ambassador , together with a photograph of the ambassador , '' the network said in a statement . `` It was using this number that the exchange took place , in which the declaration of the ambassador 's resignation was made . That resignation was then confirmed in a wire published by the Reuters press agency , quoting the Syrian Embassy as its source . '' But France 24 said it `` has no option but to take Ms. Shakkour 's denials seriously . '' It said it had commissioned comparative analyses that show the voice on France 24 differs from the voice that later issued the denial broadcast on BFM TV . `` France 24 has no doubt that Ambassador Shakkour and the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in France , who were swift to report the manipulation of which they , like France 24 , appear to have been the victims , will give their total support to this complaint and collaborate fully in the ensuing investigations , '' the network said . In her interview Tuesday night with BFM , Shakkour had threatened to sue the network . `` I am filing a complaint to the French tribunal and also to the international tribunal , and there will probably be some measures against France 24 , '' she said . Shakkour accused the network of following an agenda . `` It 's part of a campaign of misinformation by France 24 , since the beginning of March , in which it gives voice only to dissidents of Syria and it falsifies videos . '' In an interview with CNN carried out Tuesday night , after the two dueling telephone interviews but before the BFM on-camera interview , France 24 's deputy editorial director , Renee Kaplan , called the situation `` very puzzling . '' `` She has been a guest on our network before , '' said Kaplan , who added that station personnel reached Shakkour on a cell phone number that she had answered in the past . Kaplan added , `` We are confident that the person we addressed on air was she . There is no other reason to believe that anyone else would have answered on the number . ''
Syria 's ambassador denies having made call to France 24 saying she was resigning . Comment: France 24 commissioned an analysis that shows the two voices are different . Resignation was also reported by Reuters , which cited Syrian Embassy as its source .