It is not uncommon for journalists to be sentenced for defamation in the place of public figures. This time, however, the opposite has taken place: an ancient egg of the DGSE, Alain Chouet, was convicted of having publicly accused the journalist Guillaume Dasquie had "arranged" an interview he was given.The former head of Security Intelligence Directorate of External Security (DGSE) was sentenced Friday, May 30th in Paris at 1000 euro fine spy text messages suspended, 5,000 euros in damages to the victim and 4,000 euros for legal costs. He agreed to talk with Guillaume Dasquie when it prepared the survey published in Le Monde on April 17, 2007 under the title "September 11, 2001: The French had long known, and who had won the journalist of being placed in custody by agents of the DST in December.Dasquie with little Chouet quoted in the article, the former spy text messages had taken the initiative to publish on its website maintenance staff as a whole. A transcript that was approved before publication of the survey in Le Monde. But a passage relating to a Saudi billionaire, has been problematic. To the question "The name of a Saudi banker, Khalid bin Mahfouz, is regularly quoted in connection with private financial support provided to Osama bin Laden. Is it based on? "Alain Chouet responded by clarifying, yes, as are a number of documents classified DGSE" confidential defense ". Khalid Bin Mahfouz is regularly named by the media and Secret Service as a close support of Osama bin Laden, but all those who made such statements have retracted their statements.'Charges particularly serious'Lawyers for Khalid Bin Mahfouz, who publishes a website designed to refute the 'serious errors of facts' spread against him by the media-spotted Interview Chouet site and asked it to withdraw the offending passage. What he has done. The former spy also had to publish the apology letter he addressed to 'dear Khalid Sheikh' in which one could read this, about alleged links between Bin Mahfouz and Bin Laden:'I said absolutely not a thing to Mr. Dasquié I can only assume that Mr. Dasquie had included this information in the email to my attention to make me confirm one thing he wanted, by subsequently used for other purposes.These are the words of Alain Chouet said before the judges they were written by lawyers for Khalid bin Mahfouz, which earned him his conviction. Of 'particularly serious accusations "against the journalist, according to the court, which also noted that the issue of Dasquie on Bin Mahfouz's response and Chouet were brought to spy text on messgages public attention by the will of Chouet, since Article World does not reproduce ... Alain Chouet, he said he published the interview on its site 'without carefully checking what it was ... approached by Rue89, her lawyer, Ms. Martine Tigranes did not want comment on the case. For his part, William Dasquié notes that:
"Alain Chouet is the first official to have comprehensive support of Khalid bin Mahfouz, to Osama bin Laden. In trying to erase these revelations after the reactions they have provoked, Alain Chouet gives us the measure of their importance. This ruling is a victory for business information on careers and influence. "Khalid Bin Mahfouz attack CNRSThe names of Alain Chouet and Khalid Bin Mahfouz would soon resound again in a courtroom. In autumn 2007, the Saudi billionaire has decided to assign for defamation CNRS and Richard Labévière, one of the co-authors, Alain Chouet, a 'Atlas of Radical Islam' (CNRS Editions , September 2007). RFI journalist, Labévière cites the name of Bin Mahfouz in a chapter devoted to the financing of Al Qaeda.Finally, another book, 'The black book of the CIA', a co-author, Yvonnick Denoël, and his publisher (New World) also continued in France by the billionaire's lawyers.In New York, the 'legal tourism' banned because of the trial of Bin Mahfouz For Guillaume Dasqui e, find themselves in a proceeding related to Khalid Bin Mahfouz was not a first. In 2006, journalist and terrorism expert Jean-Charles Brisard had published in Le Figaro and Le Monde a letter of apology to Saudi sheikh. They disowned parts of their book "Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth '(Denoel, 2001) where they presented the Bin Mahfouz family as a donor of Osama bin Laden.Khalid Bin Mahfouz was awarded the publication of these inserts in winning a trial in Britain ... where the book has never been published text spy messages. Lawyers for the Saudi had just been buying the book, translated in the United States by a British bailiff on a website. Because of terrorist actions by the IRA, the local law is in fact much more severe in the production of evidence in France or the United States
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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