LDC, which markets the Le Gaulois and Maître Coq brands, complains of being the victim of a campaign of “denigration” and “disinformation” on the part of L214. LDC filed an hour-to-hour summary action (emergency procedure), asking the judge to take rapid measures to make it cease.

L214's lawyer, Me Caroline Lanty, argued that “since the association existed, we have learned things that we did not know”