The journalist from the investigative media Disclose Ariane Lavrilleux, also a contributor to RFI, was arrested on Tuesday September 19. An investigating judge and DGSI agents searched his home for more than 10 hours. She was placed in police custody at the Marseille police headquarters. as part of an investigation into compromising national defense secrets and revealing information that could lead to the identification of a protected agent “. Tuesday evening, a rally was held in front of the police headquarters in support of the one who was at the origin of revelations on the French military operation Sirli in Egypt.
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Sitting in front of the police headquarters, Frédéric, an independent reporter, scribbles in capital letters on a sign “ Here, journalist in the dungeon “. “ I am totally outraged, upset by the arrest of our colleague Ariane. All his equipment was taken away. She didn’t even have the means to defend herself, nothing at all », he exclaims into the microphone of our correspondent in Marseille, Mathieu Limongi.
Because Ariane Lavrilleux had to wait many hours before being able to see her lawyer. Under the watchful eye of a dozen police officers, speeches and songs of support followed in front of the Marseille city police station. “ Journalist locked up! She just wanted to inform! », we chant.
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“Intimidation”, “red line”…
Among the speeches, there is that of Nina, journalist and member of the Prenons la Une collective, of which Ariane Lavrilleux is also a member: “ Clearly, we can say that we are in a form of intimidation towards journalists who reveal problematic information. When we have a detention that lasts this long – and already a detention, in itself – against a journalist who only did his job, it is clearly a message to say ”n ‘do not investigate these matters, or reveal this kind of information’. »
Jules, another colleague, also came to defend the right to inform, which he considers violated: “ We are on a red line. Putting a journalist behind bars… I really think that the intention behind it is to discover Ariane Lavrilleux’s sources in this investigation. »
Last year, journalists from Disclosed had already been summoned by internal intelligence, for breaching national defense secrecy.