Journalists Protest Against A Gag Order On 'Reflets'

A journalist shows a drawing depicting a gagged journalist. Journalists gathered with a gag on the mouth in front of the Commercial court of Toulouse to denounce a gag procedure against a press website called 'reflets.info'. This site has published a series of articles on Altice owned by media moghul Patrick Drahi. Patrick Drahi filed a complaint at the Commercial court of Paris against Reflets for 'violation of business secrets'. Normally, this kind of complaint is filed under a jurisdiction specialized in medias as the press, in France, is under the 1881 law on press freedom. However, Partick Drahi won before the Commercial court which forbids Reflets to write anything new about Altice. In front of the normal jurisdiction, one can suppose Drahi and Altice would have loose. Similar gatherings took place elsewhere in France in front of Commercial courts. Amnesty International and The Federation of Human Rights came to support the journalists anf the freedom of the press. Toulouse. France. October 18th 2022. (Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images)