Judged Salafist by Darmanin, can the site “La Voie droite” close?

• During a report broadcast on M6 in the  program

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   on Sunday January 23, the Minister of the Interior indicated that he had "launched the adversarial procedure prior to the closure of the La Voie droite website".

• According to Gérald Darmanin, this site “disseminates content calling for hatred and jihad”.

• The procedure initiated by the Interior actually relates to the dissolution of a "de facto group" - in this case, the organizers of the site -, a procedure whose grounds were extended after the adoption of the law to combat "separatism"

Did the Minister of the Interior go faster than the music? Invited Sunday in the program 

 on M6 after a documentary devoted to the “danger of radical Islam”, Gérald Darmanin wanted to defend the record of the government in the fight against terrorism. Asked about the place of Salafist and radical content on the Internet, the tenant of Place Beauvau announced the closure "in the next few hours, the next few days" of a site accused of "disseminating content calling for hatred and jihad" .

Since 2012, this platform entitled "The Right Way" has been broadcasting audio courses, conferences and sermons delivered by several imams recently dismissed from Ile-de-France mosques, such as Ibrahim Abou Talha or Youssef Bounouader, alias Youssef Abou Anas.

If the procedure triggered by the Interior can lead to the dissolution of this small group, can it really lead to the closure of the site? 

takes stock.

• What exactly did the Ministry of the Interior announce?

Interviewed on the premises of his ministry, Gérald Darmanin therefore affirmed on January 23 that he had taken “measures which mean […] that we can have this site closed and penalize the people who will continue to keep it alive”.

An announcement relayed on his Twitter account and accompanied by this message: "Under the law confirming respect for the principles of the Republic, I have launched the adversarial procedure prior to the closure of the website" The right path "".

• What does this procedure consist of?

Used several times during this five-year term, the dissolution procedure can target associations or “groups of facts”.

In this specific case, it is aimed at the organizers of the “La Voie Droite” website.

Framed by the internal security code, this possibility of dissolution has, as the minister points out, been modified by the law on “separatism” promulgated last summer.

The grounds for initiating this procedure have been broadened and can now apply in the event of incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence on the basis of origin, sex, sexual orientation or race. gender identity.

Asked by 

the Ministry of the Interior did not wish to indicate the reasons invoked in this case so as not to “weaken the procedure”.

The structures concerned then have 10 days to contest the facts of which they are accused.

At the end of this period, the Department of Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior can decide whether or not to continue the dissolution procedure.

In the event of prosecution, a decree presented to the Council of Ministers records the dissolution.

• Is dissolution synonymous with closing the website?

This is where things get complicated.

When Gérald Darmanin indicates that in the event of dissolution, criminal proceedings may be initiated against the people who will continue to bring the site to life, he is right.

Again, it is the internal security code that governs the penalties incurred.

If the procedure is successful, the “La Voie Droite” site will therefore remain frozen and can no longer be fed under penalty of prosecution.

But contrary to the assertions of Gérald Darmanin, this measure will not result in the blocking of the website.

In France, to block a digital platform and prevent Internet users from accessing it, the intervention of a judge or an administrative blocking measure is necessary.

Very supervised, these procedures oblige Internet service providers (ISPs) to cut off access to a site.

And blocking does not mean permanent deletion.

Indeed, only the host of a platform is able to do so.

However, as is the case in cases targeting contentious sites, the "La Voie droite" site is hosted in the United States by the Californian company CloudFlare, which has also been accused in the past of a certain complacency towards regard to terrorist organizations.

Finally, in this case, the channels used by "The Right Way" are multiple.

Beyond the offending site, a mobile application offering the same content deemed "hateful" and "Salafist" by the Minister of the Interior was still available on iOS and Android on Tuesday.

A channel on encrypted Telegram messaging is also accessible and has more than 7,000 subscribers, as well as a YouTube channel and a Twitter account.

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