Paris (AFP)

The CNIL, which received a report on Friday, is currently evaluating the "legality" of a file published on the Internet by the far-right site "Fdesouche", listing political figures and activists presented as "Islamogauchists".

The National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil) told AFP that it had "downloaded the file as part of online checks" and "currently" proceeds to analyze its legality. "However, it specifies that the file is currently no longer online.

"The extreme right makes lists on which are filed all the people who are committed against Islamophobia and a list with all the associations which come to the aid of migrants. How many other lists exist? For what purpose?", A the journalist Taha Bouhafs whose name appears on the list and who revealed the affair on Friday reacted to AFP.

"I ask the closure of this site and Mr. Darmanin what he intends to do against the authors of this site who are known", also declared on BFMTV the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Eric Coquerel (LFI).

A first file, dating from November 2019, baptized "Islamo-leftists signatories of the call for the demonstration against Islamophobia of 11/10/2019" lists the signatories of this call published on Mediapart.

They are classified by name, first name, organization, "position" type imam, deputies and by category: "Islam, politics, journalism, activism, trade unionism".

Among the hundreds of politicians and left-wing activists are notably the LFI deputies Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Coquerel, the journalist of Médiapart Edwy Plenel or the "yellow vest" Jérôme Rodrigues.

A second file, dating from 2017, lists the collectives and associations helping migrants, with their email addresses and certain telephone numbers.

For the "Fdesouche" site, there is nothing illegal.

"There is nothing, it is bogus. We have just taken a list of the signatories of the call to demonstrate against homophobia, nothing more. All these data are public," told AFP his spokesperson Pierre Sautarel.

Lawyer Arié Alimi, who himself appears on the list, said that "a large number of data subjects" had decided to file a complaint "for unlawful processing of personal data".

"This file with the consequences and the nauseating hints is only the latest avatar of a media-political campaign targeting political activists, academics, researchers, people from civil society and artists because of their faith and / or their political and union convictions, "added Me Alimi in a press release.

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