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does not have the right to publish new information on the mayor of Saint-Etienne Gaël Perdriau, after his previous revelations of alleged blackmail.
In response, centrist senator Nathalie Goulet tabled a bill.
The text received the support of the chairman of the Culture Commission Laurent Lafon (centrist).
Its single article aims to complete the law of July 29, 1881 on the freedom of the press, by adding that “a publication can only be prohibited in application of a judicial decision rendered contradictorily”.
"Protecting the press more"
“We cannot leave the situation as it is and not further protect the press,” Laurent Lafon said on Tuesday.
He believes that the order on request (non-adversarial emergency procedure) issued by the Paris court on Friday November 18, according to
Mediapart
, "calls into question one of the fundamental freedoms, the freedom of the press".
“We are at the level of principles”, underlined Nathalie Goulet.
According to the senator, a lawyer by profession, the order on request is a “classic, urgent” procedure, but used “in a totally unprecedented way in the press”.
"It is the non-contradictory aspect that smashes the right of the press", she specified.
"In terms of the press, it amounts to censoring a priori," said the senator.
"It was important to react quickly and to express our support for the press," added Laurent Lafon.
An “unprecedented prior censorship”
For its part, the group CRCE with a communist majority estimated in a press release that “the contradictory and the right to a fair trial were not respected with regard to
Médiapart
”.
"Every part of this decision clearly goes against fundamental rights and opens the way to a new condemnation of France by the European Court of Human Rights", according to the CRCE group.
The investigative media had denounced Monday an "unprecedented prior censorship".
"Mediapart was not informed of this procedure and the order was taken by a judge without our newspaper being able to defend its work and its rights", indicated its director of publication Edwy Plenel.
The ordinance injunction not to publish "new revelations on the political practices of the mayor of Saint-Étienne, based in particular on the same recordings which allowed us to reveal the scandal of blackmail to the sextape of which his first deputy was the victim centrist Gilles Artigues ”, had specified Edwy Plenel.
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