The website of the anti-abortion collective
Les Survivants
was closed on the sidelines of legal proceedings, announced Monday the Paris town hall which had filed a complaint against it after a wild poster campaign.
Stickers signed
Les Survivors
were stuck on the night of May 24 to 25, 2023 on a thousand self-service bicycles in Paris: an embryo, a fetus, a baby and a boy riding a bicycle were drawn under the slogan “
And if you had let him live?”
.
“The City of Paris has filed a complaint for copyright infringement of the
Vélib logo,
”
the company that manages these bicycles, explained to AFP Hélène Bidard, deputy mayor of Paris, in charge of equality. women, men and youth, denouncing a
“disinformation campaign”
.
The town hall wants the group to be dissolved
“During this legal procedure, an identity check of the site owner required a lifting of anonymity, which revealed that the contact details were fanciful
,” she continues.
“The Town Hall's legal services obtained from the site registrar office to suspend the account of the domain name holder
,” explains Hélène Bidard.
“We hope to obtain convictions for counterfeiting the Velib logo
,” explained the communist deputy who wants the anti-abortion group to be dissolved.
The Survivors site was inaccessible Monday.
The Survivors' social networks, which present themselves as a
"solidarity movement of citizen reaction to the feeling of unease linked to the cold elimination of one in 4 children in France"
, have 109 subscribers on Twitter and 1,265 followers on Instagram.
234,000 abortions were performed in France in 2022 for 726,000 births.