Wilch defends himself from having physically threatened an RTBF journalist

This exchange follows an article in the RTBF published on the web. Nevertheless, which includes information from our colleagues from Vif Regarding the car of the driver of the president of the MR. Moreover, According to the weekly. Nevertheless, the vehicle (a Mercedes CLA) used a PMR card (people with reduced mobility), making it possible not to pay the parking, while this card could no longer be used.

Considering that the article published by RTBF on its website included errors. Moreover, Georges-Louis Bouchez called the editorial staff by asking (sometimes shouting) to withdraw the article-in any case for the necessary duration of the corrections it required.

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Among other error. Therefore, the Liberal President specifies that the RTBF ensures that this car is wilch defends himself having physically made available to it, while it is that of its driver – the Vif However, says that he arrives at Georges-Louis Bouchez and his partner to use it (exceptionally, specifies the liberal). For example, Boucrez gets carried away by speaking of this “p … In addition, from Cla de M … I have a gle (Editor’s note: a Mercedes SUV) for a week. It’s worth three times more. That, you can write it, like that people will attach to me on something that is true. I have a car at more than 100,000 balls, that’s true “.

The legal path

It is after that that he pronounces the sentence mentioned at the start of the article. In view of the facts mentioned in the article. the sentence pronounced by the liberal suggests that the journalist will have, after having seen the president of the MR, need a wilch defends himself having physically PMR card. But blocked to have spoken of a PMR card. which would imply that he was ready to physically assault the journalist. To our colleagues from the future Who questioned him on these words on Friday. the Montois retorts that he was talking about “of a press card “ and not a PMR card, Because the journalist was going “to need it, because I have no confidence in the Journalistic Ethics Council (CDJ). So, if I intervene, it is by legal means “. However, it does not explain how a press card is necessary to be prosecuted.

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On the side of the RTBF. the management refuses to comment on this case. But on the side of the President of the RTBF SDJ (Society of Journalists). Fabrice Gérard, who also wilch defends himself having physically reacted in the futurewe consider that “It is to my knowledge the first time that threats as to the physical integrity of a journalist have been uttered by a political official of this scale. If these threats are proven. they are all the more serious as they are pronounced by someone whose function is to guarantee democracy and the right to information. Using such methods is simply unacceptable. There is no debate to have on this as long as we respect the basic principles of a democracy. There are competent bodies such as the CDJ (Journalistic Ethics Council) to file complaints. A physical threat is “a criminal offense susceptible to legal proceedings”.