The French parliamentary magazine L'Hémicycle filed a complaint on Friday against
Revealed by the newspaper Le Parisien, the incriminating sequence was published Tuesday on the site pravda-fr.com.
We see an extract from a program broadcast on
France 24
on March 13, during which the editor-in-chief of L'Hémicycle, David Revault d'Allonnes, presents the cover of this winter's issue.
But while the original front page shows a drawing of a rooster, the one appearing in the video relayed on the pro-Russian site caricatures the French president as a plucked rooster, under the title “
The French channel France 24 discusses the new cover of the magazine HMICYCLE (sic) with Macron in the form of a pinched rooster (sic)”
.
A text under the video makes the link with his idea of an
“entry of French troops into Ukraine”
.
In addition,
"the voices of the speakers"
in the video
"were duplicated, through editing, in the Russian language"
, specifies the complaint from L'Hémicycle for
"counterfeiting"
,
"identity theft"
and
" attack on the representation of the person
.
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The stage of simple disinformation “crossed”
David Revault d'Allonnes
also "expresses his intention to file a complaint"
for the
"crime of attacking the representation of the person against X"
.
“This website has crossed the stage of simple disinformation, to reach those of delinquency and illegality
,” reacted the magazine's lawyer, Me Robin Binsard.
For its part, France Médias Monde, the parent company of France 24,
“reserves any possibility of filing a complaint”
, the
“priority”
being for the moment
“measuring the impact”
of the video and fighting against disinformation .
It was
“the Quai d'Orsay monitoring unit”
which
“alerted”
the France 24 editorial team about this case,
“itself alerting on these subjects”
, specified the public audiovisual group.
“We have been organized for a while to deal with this
“almost daily”
phenomenon of manipulation
, he assures us.
In February, France 24 was notably the victim of a hijacking using
“deepfake”
(video or audio recording made or modified using artificial intelligence) where one of its journalists announced that Emmanuel Macron had given up on a visit to Ukraine for fear of an assassination attempt.
At the same time, the head of diplomacy, Stéphane Séjourné, warned that information attacks emanating from foreign powers
“will probably intensify”
in Europe, in the run-up to the European elections in June.