In a column published Wednesday, these associations (SDJ, SDR and personnel companies) from a large part of the major French media, "express their deepest concerns".
The text cites "death threats, calls for rape, insults, cyber-harassment on social networks, bans on covering political events, intimidation during demonstrations etc."
The signatories give several examples, which occurred in a few days.
Earlier this week, "the Street Press news site revealed that several Street Press and Le Media TV journalists were directly threatened in messages from a small neo-Nazi group putting a target on their heads amid drawings. racists supposed to represent Muslims, Jews and blacks ", quotes the forum.
"During a public meeting of Eric Zemmour on November 12 in Bordeaux, the journalists of Sud-Ouest were banned from access. This position was assumed by the team of Eric Zemmour by justifying it by the journalistic treatment from the regional daily of a previous event, ”she lists.
"In Mediapart, a journalist covering the far right has been facing, for several weeks, a wave of calls for murder and rape, since the publication of an investigation into far-right YouTubers."
The SDJ (which are associations of journalists formed within each editorial staff) call on "the government of Jean Castex and all the political forces so that they really defend the freedom to inform and finally take the measure of the seriousness of the situation on the eve of a crucial political deadline, ”the text concludes.
The signatories are the associations resulting from the editorial staff of Agence France-Presse, Arrêt sur images, BFM TV, Challenges, Courrier International, Les Echos, Le Figaro, France 2, France 3 National, franceinfo.fr, franceinfoTV, l'Express , l'Humanité, Journal du Dimanche (JDD), LCI, LCP, Liberation, JT de M6, Marianne, Mediapart, Le Media TV, Midi Libre, Le Monde, NRJ Group, L'OBS, Paris Match, First Lines, Radio France, RFI, RMC, RTL, Sud Ouest, Télérama, TF1, La Tribune, TV5Monde.
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