"An offer from Germany's Siemens .. is in the process of being filed into the hands of the board of directors of Alstom," Montebourg said, defending his government's intervention after learning last week that U.S.-based GE was seeking to buy the arm that makes up 70 percent of Alstom's revenues.

(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; editing by Mark John)

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