Paris, February 3, 2022,
The Ministerial Press Association supports our colleague Ophélie Meunier from M6, as well as the lawyer Amine Elhabi, placed under police protection following the death threats they received for having presented and participated in a report on the rise of radical Islam in the city of Roubaix.
Seven years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the great demonstration that followed in support of freedom of expression in all its forms, it is unacceptable that journalists or people who testify in a report are threatened with death, and that the freedom of the press could be flouted in this way. It is just as appalling that a part, fortunately a minority, of the political world has seen fit to put the facts into perspective
In France, around thirty people, including several journalists and intellectuals, live under police protection because of the threats they have received from Islamist extremists. We cannot accept it. Freedom of the press and freedom of opinion are goods that are too fragile for the slightest concession to be possible.
We are still Charlie, and we are all Ophelia
Bruno Dive, President and Bureau of the Ministerial Press Association
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The APM regrets the cancellation of the wishes to the press of Matignon
The Ministerial Press Association notes that the Prime Minister is renouncing, this year, the ceremony of vows to the press. She regrets it. Breaking a republican tradition is no guarantee of modernity.
While the Head of State affirmed, in his greetings to journalists, his concern to protect the freedom of the press, "a primary freedom", this cancellation is a bad signal sent to our profession, which is increasingly seen more hindered, on a daily basis, in the exercise of his profession.
This ceremony is an opportunity to meet the journalists who cover the Prime Minister's news, the correspondents at Matignon, but also our freelance or foreign media colleagues.
The latter rarely have the opportunity to meet with the Head of Government.
It is also and above all a precious exchange around the difficulties, concerns specific to the exercise of our profession. The Ministerial Press Association is a regular relay, and has been for many years.
The abandonment of these wishes to the press is indeed all the more regrettable as our association celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. There has been better consideration on the part of the public authorities for an emblematic professional association of journalists.
Benjamin Sportouch, President of the APM and the Bureau
Charlie Hebdo – attack of January 7, 2015
We strongly condemn the terrorist attack perpetrated this Wednesday, January 7, 2015 against the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo and which claimed the lives of at least 12 people, journalists and police, not to mention other victims.
Professional journalists united in various associations, we reaffirm our unfailing attachment to freedom of expression and thought, without which all life in society and all democracy are impossible.
We would like to express our support for Charlie Hebdo, the families and loved ones of the victims affected by this despicable act. It will not prevent us from pursuing our duty to inform freely.
Association of Economic and Financial Journalists (AJEF); Presidential Press Association (APP); Ministerial Press Association (APM); Association of the French Diplomatic Press (APDF); Association of Parliamentary Journalists (AJP); Association of Social Information Journalists (AJIS); Association of Scientific Journalists of the Information Press (AJSPI); Association of Journalists of the Environment (AJE); Association of Energy Journalists (AJDE); Europress; Association of Media Journalists (AJM)
Benjamin Sportouch, new president of the Ministerial Press Association
Benjamin Sportouch, political journalist at L'Express, was elected on March 27, 2013 President of the Professional Trade Union Association of the Ministerial Press, announced the latter.
He succeeds in this post to Chantal Didier, former columnist at L'Est Républicain, currently at the Courrier du Parlement. During its general meeting, the association also renewed its office. Founded in 1948, the Professional Trade Union Association of the Ministerial Press aims to facilitate the work of journalists, all media combined, responsible for covering government activity.