Louise Bernard 9:43 a.m., May 27, 2022
After several repeated calls from deputies and historians, the far-right weekly "Rivarol" lost its approval granted by the Joint Commission for Publications and Press Agencies.
The media will no longer be able to benefit from press aid.
In question, the fifteen convictions for incitement to hatred of the director of publication, Jérôme Rivarol.
Rivarol, the far-right weekly, will no longer be able to benefit from aid dedicated to the press.
The newspaper has thus just lost its approval granted by the Joint Commission for Publications and Press Agencies.
It is this approval that allows the press to benefit from economic advantages.
Rivarol will therefore no longer have tax advantages and reduced postal rates.
The loss of accreditation also removes press aid from the Ministry of Culture, but the newspaper did not receive it because it did not ask for it.
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In the regulations of the Joint Commission for Publications and Press Agencies, it is written that approval cannot be granted to "publications denying Holocaust, inciting racial hatred, xenophobia and those undermining the dignity of the human person ".
However, Rivarol's publication director, Jérôme Bourbon, has been convicted fifteen times, in particular for incitement to hatred, contestation of crimes against humanity and racist insults.
CONTESTATION
In March, some thirty historians and personalities had published a forum in the world to protest against the indirect aid from which Rivarol benefited: "Our country grants facilities to 'Rivarol', the most racist, the most anti-Semitic and the most Holocaust denier whoever is".
Already last November, the LAREM deputy Jean-Louis Touraine had questioned the Minister of Culture at the time, Roselyne Bachelot, on this subject.