Paris (AFP)
The former director of communication of the presidential campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon Sophia Chikirou presented Wednesday in Paris his documentary on the "lawfare", instrumentalization of the justice by the power, applied according to her to the insubordinate chief with the searches of October 2018.
Called "Lawfare: the case Mélenchon", the documentary, long 1H10, must be broadcast in militant premieres, on the internet and in VOD.
It is produced by L'Internationale, the result of the transformation of the company Mediascop into an audiovisual production box, explained her boss Sophia Chikirou in front of selected activists and journalists, at the Parisian theater boat "The Red Nose".
Mediascop is suspected of having overcharged its services for the presidential campaign of the leader of La France Insoumise, as part of an investigation also concerning alleged fictitious jobs in the European Parliament, which led to the search of several local and related homes at LFI a year ago.
The documentary, conceptualized in November 2018 and made from June, is a "committed film", "without" journalistic will "but created to" make known lawfare to fight, "said this close Jean-Luc Mélenchon .
The "lawfare" is a concept developed by the left-wing opposition in several countries, which aims at the supposed instrumentalization of the justice by the political powers to harm the oppositions.
Insubordinate France has also seized it, particularly on the occasion of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's trip to Latin America and his meetings with former Brazilian President Lula or with former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner.
The movement notably used the concept of "lawfare" to denounce the "political trial" which it considers to have been a victim on 19 and 20 September in Bobigny, when Mr. Mélenchon and several relatives appeared for the incidents that sparked the search at the headquarters of LFI, in October 2018.
The documentary by Sophia Chikirou, co-directed with Jean-Marie Vaude, intends to demonstrate that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a victim of "lawfare", including witnessing the former minister of the former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa Guillaume Long, the lawyer and blogger Régis de Castelnau, Mediascop lawyer David Marais, police union boss Vigi Alexandre Langlois, Télérama journalist Samuel Gontier and La Poste trade unionist Gaël Quirante, indicted after the occupation of premises of the postal company in 2014.
Asked about the virtual absence of contradiction in the documentary, the BMFTV debater explained that she wanted to deliver "an alternative narrative", believing that the version against LFI "has largely dominated the media field".
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