INTERVIEW
Gaspard Glanz will not be in Paris for the next demonstration of "yellow vests" (Saturdays and 1st-May). Following his arrest on Saturday, during "act 23" of "yellow vests", the journalist is summoned on October 18 before the Paris court. Until then, it is forbidden to appear in Paris every Saturday and May 1st. And contrary to what he said at first, he will respect this ban.
"I intended not to respect it," he assured Matthieu Belliard's microphone on Europe 1. He finally changed his mind: "I prefer to respect my judicial control so that my lawyers have all the weapons in their hands to fight what happens and fix this problem permanently. "
"If I brave this prohibition, they put me in prison"
To the question of whether it is a hindrance to freedom of information, he answers in the affirmative: "Absolutely." "If I brave this prohibition and that's exactly what they expect, they put me in jail, it's pre-trial detention," he says to justify his decision.
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Gaspard Glanz is accused of "insulting a person who is the depositary of public authority". After being hit by a grenade of disenchantment Saturday on the Republic Square in Paris, he had sent a finger of honor to the police. "At this place in the square, at that moment, it's very quiet," he says, to justify his misunderstanding of the situation he was living. If he first wished to go to the Parisian demonstrations, it was precisely in order to know "if they really had the courage to put a journalist in prison for a finger of honor".
"Journalists are over-represented in the total number of wounded in protests"
He admits to having "regretted" this gesture at the end of his "50 hours" of custody. From now on, he "does not regret it because it allowed to show, it put a focus on a situation that is extremely serious". In particular, he refers to the large number of journalists who are victims of police violence: "Journalists are over-represented in the total number of wounded in demonstrations." According to a provisional report made by Allo place Beauvau and relayed by the journalist David Dufresne, 79 of the 690 reports for police violence concern journalists, more than 10%.
allo @Place_Beauvau - this is for a report (provisional)
690 reports of which 79 relate to journalists
Datavisualization updated on @Mediapart: https://t.co/2knUYyBpR8pic.twitter.com/6atMD60IpY
Faced with "this problem", Gaspard Glanz claims "that at some point, there is a sensible Minister of the Interior, who reminds the police that we are offside. out of the box, we have to stop shooting at us. "