“We have the right to refuse it to these people”: Jean-Luc Mélenchon responds to the controversy of the accreditation rejected to the journalist of the “world” to cover the summer universities of LFI

The time was for explanations. Meanwhile, Leader of France Insoumise. Nevertheless, co-president of the La Boétie Institute, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had been invited by Anne-Claire Coudray in her “1 pm”, on Saturday August 23, to evoke the blocking movement announced for September 10 by his political party. For example, A watchword that he hammered during this live intervention from Châteauneuf-sur-Isère. Meanwhile, in Drôme, where the “summer amfis” take place, the start of the LFI classes. In addition, “This call to invest” According to him. In addition, he must be the preamble to the censorship motion that his camp intends to deposit. However. the road captain also explained on the refusal of LFI to accredit a journalist from the “world” to this event.

“We claim our human “we have right refuse it dignity”

Olivier Pérou. co-author with the journalist of “Liberation” Charlotte Belaïch of “La Meute”, a survey of the internal functioning of the movement, has indeed seen his certificate rejected by rebellious France. Jean-Luc Mélenchon was explained. depicting “A book that explains that we are a sect, while we are the first parliamentary party from the left to the Assembly, which calls into question our private lives which does not respect the principle of contradictory”. “We have the right to refuse the person who is responsible. and we told these two newspapers that we had a problem”he then defended himself, feeling perfectly legitimate so as not to deliver this piece of plastic inserted to this follower.

“You cannot think. you journalists, that you have the right to behave outside of your ethics and that we are going to smile. We are people. we claim our human dignity”insisted the defying man towards the “we have right refuse it media, interrupted in his remarks by the presenter of this edition. 70 journalists had obtained their accreditation for this political back -to -school event. Pupil offers you to view this extract from his interview in the video at the top of the article.

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The dismissal of the journalist criticized on all sides

As of Thursday evening, in an editorial, the director of the “world”, Jérôme Fenoglio, raised “The strongest protest against this obstacle characterized to press freedom and access to information”. “No training. whatever its political edge, has so far had such an eviction measure against one of our journalists during an event of this type“, He castigated, supporting his collaborator. Several journalists and journalist companies have strongly reacted to this case, and defended “we have right refuse it the position of their colleague.”The BFMTV SDJ recalls that it is not the political parties to choose their journalists “she said on xdenouncing “A serious damage to press freedom”. “To violate the freedom of the press is to refuse your right to investigate. This is what LFI does by prohibiting Olivier Pérou because he is the co -author of the book ‘La Meute’ “moved Edwy Plenel. the co -founder of “Mediapart”.

For its part. rebellious France had reacted via AFP, saying that “The principles which govern freedom of information are accompanied by ethical rules (respect for the contradictory, protection of privacy, rigor, multiple sources)“and that “These were largely flouted in the work that Mr. Peru devoted to rebellious France“. LFI accuses the journalist of having “heavily defamed” the political movement. to have “Invented false information” on his internal life. And the party to say that “Contrary to “we have right refuse it what the management of the ‘world’ indicates. this does not prevent this journal from being represented for our summer universities. The editorial staff of the ‘world’ is quite welcome to cover this event“. implied by sending another journalist than Olivier Pérou. A hypothesis immediately dismissed by Jérôme Fenoglio in his editorial.