FranceSoir is once again at the heart of a controversy.
In a column published in the newspaper L'Express on Tuesday, August 31, a dozen scientists and health professionals protested against an article published by the FranceSoir site on August 22.
In addition to taking up the conspiratorial and covid-skeptic theses that have proliferated in France since the start of the pandemic, the article directly quotes certain researchers and health professionals, and calls for an enigmatic trial.
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The anonymous author evokes a "
brainwashing distilled by the mainstream propagandist media
", "
the pharmaceutical industry
", or even "
corrupt doctors, politicians with a Europeanist and globalist ideology
".
The conclusion is more violent: “
A trial will have to be held.
The Widow is impatient
”.
"
Incitement to hatred
"
What does the end of this FranceSoir article really mean?
According to the scientists and doctors targeted, the Widow would refer to one of the nicknames given, first to the gallows, then to the guillotine: "
This article therefore ends with an incitement to hatred, a call for condemnations. death, or explicit death threats targeting each of us by name,
”write the authors in their column.
"This
text of France evening marks a turning point in this escalation of threats and violence with incitement to commit crimes
" they add.
An article relayed by Professor Raoult
In addition, the FranceSoir article of August 22 was shared two days later by Professor Didier Raoult on his personal Twitter account with 842,000 subscribers. His work on hydroxychloroquine was highlighted in the text.
"Without this tweet, it would not have gone so far,"
adds Hervé Maisonneuve, author of the blog "
Medical and scientific writing
", also indicted by FranceSoir.
The collective of doctors asked the authorities to take "
urgent measures
", and demand the "depublication" of this article. For Xavier Azalbert, publication director of FranceSoir, interviewed Thursday, September 2 by Natacha Polony on BFM-TV,
“this text has its place, it has been [the subject] of verifications. It is a platform of opinion. Freedom of expression means that we have had newspapers under de Gaulle which have done much worse
”. Professor Karine Lacombe, signatory of the express platform, was worried on BFM-TV last Wednesday of a "
passage to the act
".