He wipes the worst insults. Described as a “miserable rag of the far left” or even a “filthy cabbage leaf”, the weekly The Poher decided to react. On Wednesday, his lawyer requested the condemnation of the Republican Resistance website for “insults and defamation”. Already repeatedly targeted by insults, death threats and false bomb threats, the newspaper of Carhaix (Finistère) has been targeted by the far right since the publication of articles about the center of center for migrants in Callac (Côtes-d’Armor). This project was also abandoned under pressure from the extreme right.
The Breton weekly is opposed in particular to the publication of an article, still online, entitled “Woman is the future of man? No, it’s the African! “, written by Bernard Germain, candidate of the Reconquest party. The author is also being sued by the newspaper. In this article published on the site of the anti-Islam association, the readers of the newspaper are treated as “morons”, and one of its journalists is accused of being “sold to immigrationists and globalists” and “collaborator”. “We are opposed to freedom of expression. However, case law tells us that freedom of expression is a freedom limited by the law of 1881, it is not an absolute American-style freedom, “said the lawyer for the poherIannis Alvarez.
The lawyer asked the court to condemn Republican Resistance for insult and defamation, to order the withdrawal of the article and the publication of the judgment on the far-right site, as well as in the regional press. Frédéric Pichon, lawyer for the Republican Resistance and former leader of the far-right student organization GUD, said he was “stunned and dismayed to see that an opinion newspaper comes to play the frightened virgin because we have scraped “. Judgment was reserved for October 25.