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Sarkozy-Qaddafi: The director and two reporters convened by the Mediapart policeSarkozy-Qaddafi: The revelations of Mediapart
Edwy Plenel and two Mediapart journalists were summoned by the police. They had to explain following the publication of an article on a supposed project to fund the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy by Gaddafi.
Mediapart announced Wednesday that its managing editor Edwy Plenel and two of its journalists were summoned by the police in the investigation following a complaint by Nicolas Sarkozy for the publication of a note on an alleged Libyan financing of his campaign in 2007. Edwy Plenel is convened Friday, while the two reporters, Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske, are convened on 21 and 22 May
The two journalists had co-authored an article on April 28 on an assumed project financing Libyan campaign Mr Sarkozy in 2007. Still president, Mr Sarkozy had responded two days later by a complaint for "forgery and uttering false allegations" against the site, and the prosecution on the same day had opened an investigation.
Two days later and four days of the second round of the presidential election, the news site replied in turn by filing a complaint for false accusation against the incumbent president, fought on May 6 by the socialist Francois Hollande.
In its statement, Edwy Plenel again deplores that "only false complaint of the former president is the subject of a preliminary investigation." "We will refuse to answer questions as part of this preliminary investigation," warned Mr. Plenel. "And we reiterate our request for an independent and impartial justice, respecting the right of the press is that the citizens' right to know."
"The seriousness of the facts revealed by sections of Mediapart, revealing strong corroborative evidence of illicit financing, and the consistency of the submissions make it indispensable to justice the appointment of a judge independent and impartial for the undertaking of all acts necessary to ascertain the truth, "he added.
He said Mediapart had returned to Paris prosecutors Wednesday in support of his complaint 45 pieces proving "the rigor of the work Mediapart in its investigation of the possibility of an illicit financing of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 ".
http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/faits-divers/sarkozy-kadhafi-le-directeur-et-deux-reporters-de-mediapart-convoques-par-la-police-226451.html
Sarkozy-Qaddafi: The director and two reporters convened by the Mediapart policeSarkozy-Qaddafi: The revelations of Mediapart
Edwy Plenel and two Mediapart journalists were summoned by the police. They had to explain following the publication of an article on a supposed project to fund the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy by Gaddafi.
Mediapart announced Wednesday that its managing editor Edwy Plenel and two of its journalists were summoned by the police in the investigation following a complaint by Nicolas Sarkozy for the publication of a note on an alleged Libyan financing of his campaign in 2007. Edwy Plenel is convened Friday, while the two reporters, Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske, are convened on 21 and 22 May
The two journalists had co-authored an article on April 28 on an assumed project financing Libyan campaign Mr Sarkozy in 2007. Still president, Mr Sarkozy had responded two days later by a complaint for "forgery and uttering false allegations" against the site, and the prosecution on the same day had opened an investigation.
Two days later and four days of the second round of the presidential election, the news site replied in turn by filing a complaint for false accusation against the incumbent president, fought on May 6 by the socialist Francois Hollande.
In its statement, Edwy Plenel again deplores that "only false complaint of the former president is the subject of a preliminary investigation." "We will refuse to answer questions as part of this preliminary investigation," warned Mr. Plenel. "And we reiterate our request for an independent and impartial justice, respecting the right of the press is that the citizens' right to know."
"The seriousness of the facts revealed by sections of Mediapart, revealing strong corroborative evidence of illicit financing, and the consistency of the submissions make it indispensable to justice the appointment of a judge independent and impartial for the undertaking of all acts necessary to ascertain the truth, "he added.
He said Mediapart had returned to Paris prosecutors Wednesday in support of his complaint 45 pieces proving "the rigor of the work Mediapart in its investigation of the possibility of an illicit financing of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 ".
http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/faits-divers/sarkozy-kadhafi-le-directeur-et-deux-reporters-de-mediapart-convoques-par-la-police-226451.html
