Question 10914 — press and books

Summary

Ms. Florence Joubert draws the attention of the Minister of Culture to the decision rendered on July 2, 2025 by the joint committee of publications and press agencies (CPPAP), which resulted in the withdrawal of the registration certificate of the satirical newspaper La Furia. Indeed, this decision came following reports made to the CPPAP by the associations SOS Racisme and SOS Homophobia, which are also the origin of several complaints against the magazine. The CPPAP considered that certain contents of the newspaper remained “susceptible to criminal prosecution” and based this assessment on the withdrawal of the certificate. However, these complaints have since all been closed without further action by the Nanterre public prosecutor's office, which considered that the offenses in question were insufficiently characterized. This withdrawal deprives La Furia of the essential advantages to the survival of a press title, such as access to public aid for the press and specific postal rates. In addition, it questions the scope of the administrative control exercised by the CPPAP which cannot theoretically replace the judicial authority, as well as the compatibility of such a decision with the constitutional principles of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, enshrined in the law of July 29 1881. As for European jurisprudence, by virtue of a leading judgment in the Handyside v. United Kingdom dating from December 7, 1976, the ECHR ruled that “freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of such a society, one of the essential conditions for its progress and the development of each person. It applies not only to "information" or "ideas" that are favorably received or considered harmless or indifferent, but also for those which offend, shock or worry the State or any section of the population. This is what pluralism, tolerance and the spirit of openness require, without which there is no democratic society.” Thus, she would like to know what follow-up the ministry intends to reserve for the hierarchical appeal filed by the publishers of La Furia and what guarantees the Government intends to provide so that the approval regime for press titles cannot harm, directly or indirectly, pluralism and freedom of expression.

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