Several death threats and a bomb threat targeted a Breton newspaper. To defend him and support his journalists, around 500 people gathered on Saturday outside the headquarters of the local weekly The Poher in Carhaix (Finistère), according to an AFP correspondent.
“I could talk to you about freedom, fraternity, dignity, struggle, but I want to talk about normality. We want to return to a normal situation and continue to do our work,” the editor-in-chief of the newspaper told the crowd. poher, Erwan Chartier-Le Floch, who expects the threats to “continue”. “We will continue to file a complaint,” he continued.
“What the newspaper did The Poher, it is quite simply to inform, to seek the facts, to analyze them, to present them to the readers. This is what is being attacked today, it is the freedom to inform ourselves and to have an honest democratic debate,” said a representative of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ), after reading the article in the poherwhich triggered the first threats.
Bomb alert
Complaints for death threats, made twice since the end of October 2022, have been filed by the editor-in-chief and a member of the independent newspaper, according to the Center-Bretagne weekly. On Monday, the newspaper’s headquarters were evacuated after a bomb threat by telephone, accompanied by new death threats.
These threats follow, according to the weekly, articles dealing with a controversial project to welcome refugees in Callac, a town of 2,200 inhabitants north of Carhaix. The project was finally abandoned after several far-right protests.
A journalist from France 3, who reported in a web article about threats against the poher, was herself targeted, particularly in comments on the Riposte Laïque website. The journalist, as well as France Télévisions, for their part filed a complaint in mid-February in Brest “against X and against the Riposte Laïque site for public insults, threats and sexist remarks”, indicated the management.