2024-02-15 05:00:01
In December 2022, the exuberant Tal Hanan, who manages the Israeli disinformation outlet Team Jorge, showed images of BFM-TV night news presenter Rachid M’Barki on a computer screen. While he received, with his colleagues, two Undercover journalists investigating for an investigative consortium, the businessman boasted of being able to place stories in media outlets around the world, including the 24-hour news channel.
One year after the publication of the investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, to which The world participated, the vast legal proceedings on foreign interference opened by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office continue. It led, in December 2023, to the indictment of Rachid M’Barki for breach of trust and passive private corruption, and today mainly revolves around the role of certain French lobbyists, including Jean-Pierre Duthion, also accused under investigation for corruption.
According to information from Mondefrom Radio France and Forbidden Stories, confirming articles from Parisianit is above all this former fixer in Syria who allegedly asked the presenter to broadcast certain subjects on the air, on behalf of various employers, first and foremost Qatar.
After several hearings, the journalist finally admitted, before investigators, to having been paid on several occasions by Jean-Pierre Duthion, for a total of 8,000 euros maximum. Part of these funds come, according to our information, from lobbyist Nabil Ennasri, indicted in this case and suspected of having acted on behalf of Qatar in France. According to information from MondeNabil Ennasri would also have paid Jean-Pierre Duthion monthly for almost a year, to the tune of 7,500 euros per month.
Control over a deputy
Rachid M’Barki and Jean-Pierre Duthion have made a real turnaround since their hearings, at the start of 2023, by a parliamentary commission of inquiry into foreign interference, during which they denied any form of influence and above all of remuneration. And this, while a new flash mission, this time on interference in the media, has just been made official by the Cultural Affairs Committee. “There was a journey on the part of Jean-Pierre Duthion, a form of awarenessexplains his lawyer, Robin Binsard. He understood today that he was the link in a system that surpasses him. »
It was also through Jean-Pierre Duthion that another key personality in this issue appeared: the environmentalist deputy for Rhône Hubert Julien-Laferrière. Shortly after the publication of Story Killers, Mediapart the revealed that the ex-Generation Ecology elected official had had contact with the lobbyist and that he had promoted, in the Assembly, a strange cryptoactive which was, in reality, a scam.
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