Brice
Hortefeux, the Minister of the Interior, announced on Monday that he’d
brought charges against two Internet sites that are hostile to the
police.
[news.infoshop.org] Hortefeux, who was away on business with his Spanish counterpart Alfredo
at the police station at Dammarie-les-Lys, which was on 16 March the
target of a gunman thought to be connected with the armed Basque group
ETA, didn’t want to mention the sites in question “so as to not give
them any publicity.”
According to a source close to the Minister of the Interior, they are http://juralibertaire.over-blog.com[1] and grenoble.indymedia.org.
The Minister brought a complaint for the “public insult and defamation
of the police.” He explained that, “there were campaigns that shocked me
that I couldn’t let stand.” According to him, the content of these
sites “attack the honor of the police.” In particular, “the police are
called ‘bands of killers’ and the BAC [the anti-criminal brigade] is
called an ‘armed band of criminals.’”
At the portal to the first of these two sites, which is apparently close
to the anarcho-autonomous movement,[2] one can read: “The police work .
. . for social apartheid.”
In September 2009, Brice Hortefeux brought a complaint alleging
defamation of the national police against the makers of remarks reported
by the AFP and Libération.fr.
(Written by the AFP and published in Libération on 26 July 2010.
Translated from the French by NOT BORED! on 28 July 2010. Footnotes by
the translator.)
[1] See the interview conducted by Paco for more information about le Jura Libertaire: http://www.notbored.org/le-jura-libertaire.html
[2] A repetition of the meaningless phrase once applied to the Tarnac Nine.
Source: http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100729021444575
