A platform against far-right threats to journalists

“Acts of threats and intimidation from the far right are increasing against the press.

Thirty-five journalists' associations called on the government and "all political forces" five months before the presidential election.

In a column published Wednesday, the companies of journalists, companies of editors and companies of the personnel of a large part of the large French media, express their deepest concerns.

The text cites “death threats, calls for rape, insults, cyberstalking on social networks, bans on covering political events, intimidation during demonstrations, etc.

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Journalists banned from access to a public meeting of Eric Zemmour

The signatories give several examples, which occurred in a few days. Earlier this week, “the Street Press news site revealed that several Street Press and Le Media TV journalists were directly threatened in messages from a small neo-Nazi group putting a target on their heads, in the middle of cartoons. racists supposed to represent Muslims, Jews and blacks ”, quotes the tribune. “During a public meeting of Eric Zemmour on November 12 in Bordeaux, journalists from Sud-Ouest were banned from entering. This position was assumed by Eric Zemmour's team by justifying it by the journalistic treatment of the regional daily of a previous event. ".

"In Mediapart, a journalist covering the far right has been facing, for several weeks, a wave of calls for murder and rape, since the publication of an investigation into far-right YouTubers".

The defense of the freedom to inform

The SDJ calls on "the government of Jean Castex and all the political forces so that they really defend the freedom to inform and finally take the measure of the gravity of the situation on the eve of a crucial political deadline", concludes the text. The signatories are the associations resulting from the editorial staff of Agence France-Presse, Arrêt sur images, BFM TV,

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, France 2, France 3 National, Franceinfo.fr, FranceinfoTV,

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, LCI, LCP,

, News from M6,

, Mediapart, Le Media TV,

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, NRJ Group,

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, First Lines, Radio France, RFI, RMC, RTL,

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, TF1,

, TV5Monde ...

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