the journalist presented to a judge of freedoms and detention

Investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux is summoned this Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. to the Paris High Court to be presented before the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), franceinfo learned from a source close to the case. After the search of the journalist’s home, then her custody, the judge will have to decide whether the seized documents can be included in the proceedings initiated against the journalist accused of disclosing a national defense secret. She is at the origin of a collective investigation for France 2 and Disclose on the dark side of Franco-Egyptian cooperation.

After the custody of Ariane Lavrilleux, Disclose clarified last Wednesday, on “French weapons abroad, published in the media since 2019”. During a press conference Thursday afternoon at the headquarters of Reporters Without Borders in Paris, Ariane Lavrilleux was indignant that a “new milestone” had been taken against the freedom to inform, denouncing a “misuse of the services of Justice”. Furthermore, a former soldier was indicted on Thursday in Paris, suspected of having provided information to the journalist.