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    ‘Thought Police’? French Journalists Face Legal Threat for ‘Doing Their Jobs’

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    A trio of French journalists — Geoffrey Livolsi and Mathias Destal, cofounders of investigative resource Disclose, and Benoit Collombat of Radio  — have been summoned to meet with the General Directorate for Internal Security (Direction Generale de la Securite Interieure, DGSI), after playing a pivotal role in publishing damning classified files exposing France's clandestine involvement in the war in .

    On 15th April, Disclose, in partnership with Radio France, Mediapart, Arte Info, and Konbini, published a series of reports — Made in France – detailing the hitherto unknown “massive use of French-made weapons” in the war, which has now entered its fourth year.

    The centrepiece of the five-part series was a 15-page French intelligence document, extensively detailing how French-made artillery, tanks and laser-guided missile systems have been used against civilians in the conflict, suggesting the French government may be complicit in war crimes as a result.

    Not intended for public consumption, the report was apparently presented to President Emmanuel Macron at a defence committee meeting convened at the Elysee Palace on 3rd October 2018.

    Five days later, a heavily edited version of the report, reduced to a mere six-pages, was dispatched “to a much wider list of addressees, numbering around 40” in other government ministries — and the “most sensitive information” had all but disappeared, notably maps noting…

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