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Sarkosy: ego trip or first class censor? Trial against La Rumeur rapper resumedSubmitted by Dras-Tik on Thu, 2007-07-12 12:28.
After putting increasing pressure on French media to publish anything on his loveheart fucking off to New York with someone more interesting or not bothering to vote on his big day, Sarkosy is now using all supra powers in his hands to shut up his detractors.
Only few weeks after his election, Sarko managed to exert a rarely used procedure to break a June 2006 court ruling discharging La Rumeur’s Mohamed Bourokba aka Hamé and resume proceedings “for defamation of the police” against the French rapper. (see article "Pour l'avocat des rappeurs de La Rumeur, "la liberté d'expression est en péril", Le Monde 11 July 2007) The absence of condemnations of other rappers such as NTM, Sniper and Monsieur R had given hopes that the French judicial system could be trusted, explains Hamé’s lawyer Dominique Tricaut. But with the Supreme Court’s cancellation of the discharge on Wednesday (11 July), “freedom of expression is jeopardised,” the lawyer adds.At the origin of the complaint lodged by the former home minister Sarko in July 2002 is an article by Hamé called "L'insécurité sous la plume d'un barbare"« insecurity under a barbarian’s nib» published in a fanzine along with the release of the album “L’ombre sur la mesure.” Intellectuals have given their support to the rapper and sociologist Fabien Jobard, historian Maurice Rajsfus as well as Eric Blondin, the founder of the national police unions explained texts by Hamé and other La Rumeur members Ekoué et Philippe indicated "the general feeling ". During the trial of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for the publication Mahomet cartoons, the then candidate Sarko had indicated he preferred excess in caricatures to no caricatures. Hamé’s rap being a satire of Sarkozy, the now president should have abandoned proceedings but instead managed to get a ruling by the Supreme court only few weeks after his election, analyses Tricaut.
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