35 journalists' associations sign a platform against threats from the far right

2021-11-18T14:52:01.061Z

Journalists are alarmed by an increase in threats from the far right after the revelations of the online media Street Press.

Thirty-five journalists' associations called on the government and "

all political forces

" about "

acts of threats and intimidation of the extreme right

" which "

are increasing against the press

", five months before the presidential. In a column published Wednesday, November 18, these associations (SDJ, SDR and personnel companies) of a large part of the major French media, "

express their deepest concerns

". The text cites “

death threats, calls for rape, insults, cyberstalking on social networks, bans on covering political events, intimidation during demonstrations, etc.

The signatories give several examples, which occurred in a few days.

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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, in the middle of cartoons. racists supposed to represent Muslims, Jews and blacks

”, quotes the forum.

“

During a public meeting of Eric Zemmour on November 12 in Bordeaux, journalists from Sud-Ouest were banned from entering.
This position was assumed by Eric Zemmour's team by justifying it by the journalistic treatment of 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

”, concludes the text. 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

Humanity

Sunday Newspaper (JDD)

, LCI, LCP,

Liberation

, JT de M6,