The League of Human Rights (LDH) calls for the interruption "
without delay
" of the process of administrative dissolution of the "
independent media Nantes revolted
", announced this week by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, we were told. learned on Saturday.
"
The proliferation of the abusive use of administrative dissolution is currently part of a deliberate desire by the executive power to intimidate and in some cases silence the voices of political protest, curbing the freedom of association and the freedom of 'inform
', denounces the LDH in a press release.
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"
If the freedom to inform knows legal limits, the first intervention of the judicial judge, the only constitutional guarantor of individual freedoms and independence, must remain the privileged way
", she adds, denouncing a "
worrying step in the extension of a political tool of collective sanction prejudicial to fundamental freedoms
”.
The ultra-left collective is implicated for having called on January 21 for an undeclared demonstration “
against the State, against the police
”, which the interested parties refute, who claim to have called for a demonstration “
against the extreme right
. “, while a royalist rally was taking place in commemoration of the execution of Louis XVI.
During this "
antifa
" demonstration, which brought together more than 600 people, the window of a Zara store was smashed and projectiles fired at the police who responded with tear gas canisters.
“
Down with the state, the cops and the fachos
,” had chanted the demonstrators.
Gérald Darmanin argued that "
since the El Khomri law (Labour law), this de facto group constantly repeats calls for violence and this weekend against the State and the police
".
In a press release published Thursday, the CGT of France 3 Pays de la Loire considers "
absurd to blame a media for all the excesses that can be committed during the demonstrations announced in its pages
", recalling the work of collecting testimonies from "
Nantes revolted
in the case of Steve, a young extracurricular animator who died in 2019 during a controversial police operation on the occasion of the Fête de la musique.
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Created in 2012, "
Nantes révoltée
" defines itself as an "
autonomous media and committed to social and environmental struggles
", but it is also singled out by the authorities when violence is committed in demonstrations.
In addition to a website and a Facebook page which has more than 217,000 subscribers, “
Nantes révoltée
” published its new paper magazine “
Contre-attack
” in January.
A petition against the dissolution has collected more than 30,000 signatures.