Manuel Valls announced Thursday that he was going to attack the Arte television channel.
The former prime minister of François Hollande chose to announce it directly on Twitter.
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Faced with a questioning as violent as it is odious on the Arte channel, I decided to file a complaint on the count of public defamation against a public person,"
he wrote.
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In the documentary
" The shadows of the Bataclan "
, broadcast on September 3, it is affirmed that I would have privileged as Prime Minister electoral interests to the detriment of the effectiveness of the interventions of the police forces during the night of the attacks November 13, 2015. This amounts to imputing to me an almost diabolical cynicism since I would not hesitate to sacrifice human lives on the altar of a tortuous electoral calculation
", explains the politician, before adding that"
these words go well beyond the permissible limits of freedom of expression
”. In a fourth message, Manuel Valls concludes that "
these statements of unheard-of violence, formulated without any concern for accuracy and to which I have not been allowed to answer precisely, clearly characterize the offense of public defamation against a public person
”.
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A form of nausea
"
At the beginning of September, the Franco-German channel had broadcast in the second part of the evening a documentary reviewing the dysfunctions of the authorities at the time of the 2015 attacks, which gave the floor in particular to Manuel Valls, then Prime Minister and Bernard Cazeneuve, Minister of Interior.
In this program, a former intelligence officer accuses the former prime minister of François Hollande of having taken certain decisions not based on the general interest but because he "
clearly aimed at the post of President of the Republic."
He needed to grab the good graces of the police.
What was not won
”.
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On September 7, guest of Sonia Mabrouk on Europe 1
,
Bernard Cazeneuve had already denounced these accusations.
“
It's abject to say things like that.
Letting them say and diffuse cannot produce other effects than a form of nausea.
"
Contacted, Arte has not yet reacted to this complaint.
