For months, the Diderot Committee has been appealing to French and European authorities to draw their attention to the distribution of Russian propaganda channels by the French satellite operator Eutelsat.
The committee is getting more and more attention.
"Reporters Without Borders" has approached the French media regulator Arcom.
And now 39 members of the European Parliament have formulated an urgent appeal to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell: The EU should ensure that Putin's "blood radio" is stopped, at Eutelsat and at the Luxembourg satellite operator SES.
Influential French MPs signed the appeal: Nathalie Loiseau, who was Emmanuel Macron's Minister for European Affairs, the philosopher Raphaël Glucksmann, the journalist Bernard Guetta.
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André Lange, co-founder and spokesman of the Comité Diderot, attended the Eutelsat general assembly a few days ago as the owner of a few shares and denounced the collaboration with Russian propaganda.
A meeting of the intergovernmental organization “Eutelsat IGO” will take place on Thursday, November 24th.
49 countries are involved in it.
The Comité Diderot also made representations there.
It wants to exclude Russia and tighten controls on cooperation with countries like Iran and Yemen, whose radio broadcasts anti-Semitic programs that blame Putin's war of aggression on Ukraine on the "wickedness of the Jews."