The League of Human Rights (LDH) requests the interruption “without delayof the process of administrative dissolution of theindependent media Nantes revolted“, Announced this week by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, we learned on Saturday. “The multiplication of the abusive use of administrative dissolution is currently part of a deliberate desire by the executive power to intimidate and in some cases to silence the voices of political protest, curbing the freedom of association and the freedom to 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 infringing on 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 refutes the interested parties who claim to have called to demonstrate”against the far right“, while a royalist rally was taking place in commemoration of the execution of Louis XVI.
During this demonstrationantifa“, which gathered more than 600 people, the window of a Zara store had been smashed and projectiles fired in the direction of 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 reproach 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 revoltedin 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 revolted» is defined as a «independent media committed to social and environmental struggles“, but it is also pointed out by the authorities when violence is committed in demonstration. In addition to a website and a Facebook page which has more than 217,000 subscribers,Nantes revolted“published in January its new paper review “Counter attack“. A petition against the dissolution has collected more than 30,000 signatures.