Footballer Karim Benzema's complaint against Gérald Darmanin, who accused him of his "links" with the Muslim Brotherhood, was dismissed last Tuesday. A decision welcomed by elected officials, writers, researchers and citizen “whistleblowers’ who are victims of legal harassment aimed at silencing them.

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