Thirty historians and personalities had protested, in a column, published in March, against these “indirect public aids” from which the far -right media benefited.
Le Monde with AFP
The far-right weekly Rivarol was withdrawn by the joint commission of publications and press agencies (CPPAP), learned, Tuesday, May 24, the France-Presse (AFP) agency with The CPPAP. This withdrawal, initially revealed by the site specializing in the fight against conspiracy Watch conspiracy, can be the subject of an appeal to administrative justice.
This decision deprives the media of tax advantages and reduced postal rates from which newspapers benefit. In theory, she also prevents him from benefiting from the press aid of the Ministry of Culture, which he did not touch anyway, because he did not ask them, it was added to the CPPAP.
Founded in 1951, Rivarol – named after the counter -revolutionary Antoine de Rivarol – is a flagship publication of the French extreme right. Its publication director, Jérôme Bourbon, was sentenced about fifteen times, in particular for provocation to hatred, crime challenge against humanity and racist insult.
the weekly “most racist, the most anti -Semitic and the most negationist which is “
In December, he was thus condemned for challenging crime against humanity and provocation to hatred towards the Jews due to a video in which he mentioned the Vel’d’Hiv ’roundup. He said in particular that Marshal Pétain was “always opposed to what is the slightest persecution or any damage to the French Jews”.
In March, around thirty historians and personalities, including Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, defenders of the memory of the deportees of France, had protested against the “indirect public aid” which Rivarol benefited. “Our country grants facilities to” Rivarol “, the most racist, most anti-Semitic and most negationist weekly, they wrote in a column published in Le Monde, asking the CPPAP to withdraw its approval from the ‘weekly. In November, LRM deputy Jean-Louis Touraine also arrested the Minister of Culture then, Roselyne Bachelot.
Solicited by AFP on Tuesday, Rivarol had not reacted immediately. The CPPAP is an body composed of parity of state representatives and press professionals. It is responsible for deciding whether the publications are eligible for the economic regime of the press, according to a certain number of criteria. Its regulation specifies in particular that “negationist publications, encouraging racial hatred, xenophobia and those undermining the dignity of the human person” cannot benefit from this regime.