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Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Protecting criminals from those who expose them
Summary: An utter lack of respect for the privacy of the media and of its sources, in the name of protecting the privacy of those convicted of crimes, as seen in France just like the European Patent Office
THIS is the second part of a series of 5 (part one here) regarding the Benalla affair. Benalla had worked clandestinely at the European Patent Office (EPO) before the so-called ‘Benallagate’ broke out.
=> part one here | ↺ EPO
As it turns out, France is now mimicking the EPO modus operandi. The EPO hired a dodgy private firm to help spy on the staff, as we noted in:
More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks GroupThe EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and StaffEPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group DealEPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their SourcesEPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on BothThe European Patent Office Has Become MilitarisedEPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected ‘Control Risks’ to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS AttacksEPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden CamerasEuropean Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on StaffInvestigation Unit a Complete Farce Inside the EPOSüddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the TableEPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De VolkskrantTechrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
The next translation comes from a reader, who read “Mediapart s’oppose à une perquisition de ses locaux dans l’affaire Benalla” and put it all in English as follows:
Mediapart opposes a search of its premises in the Benalla case
The leaders of the information site say they refused a search conducted in the context of an investigation for a restriction of Benalla’s privacy.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into “restriction of privacy” and the conditions for recording a conversation between Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase in late July, after its broadcast last week by Mediapart, it was reported on Monday from a judicial source.
The online media reported that on Monday morning it refused a search of its premises, where two prosecutors and investigators who wanted to seize the recordings in question as part of this procedure came forward. “There are diligences to find our sources, it is a particularly worrying situation,” denounced Fabrice Arfi, co-responsible for the online newspaper’s surveys, to AFP.
Mediapart had published on Thursday excerpts from a recording of a conversation between Alexandre Benalla, Emmanuel Macron’s former advisor, and Vincent Crase, former LREM employee and reservist gendarme.
According to the news website, this conversation took place on 26 July, a few days after the two men were indicted for violence against demonstrators on 1 May 2018 and in violation of their judicial control.
The judicial source specified that the opening of the preliminary investigation, which also concerns the “unlawful possession of devices or technical devices likely to enable the interception of telecommunications or conversations”, took place following the receipt by the Paris prosecutor’s office of “elements”, the nature of which has not been specified.
A source close to the investigation added that it was not triggered following a complaint from Alexandre Benalla.
“As we are in the context of a preliminary investigation, we have the right to refuse a search and we have therefore obviously refused it, allowing us to comment on this unprecedented situation in the history of the newspaper, and which we consider particularly serious for the newspaper,” also explained Fabrice Arfi.
Previously in the Benalla affair in relation to the EPO:
Alexandre Benalla, Macron’s Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli’s BodyguardIt Wasn’t Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPOGuest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli’s Epic Abuses)The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in JailFrench Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue ‘Bodyguards’ From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
The next part will be published either later today or tomorrow. █
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