A Blast journalist placed in police custody for 35 hours files a complaint against the State for “gross misconduct”

The Blast journalist arrested in Paris on Tuesday June 18 and placed in police custody for 35 hours will file a complaint on Friday June 28 against the State, her lawyer told franceinfo on Thursday. Maître Laurent Pasquet-Marinacce denounces a “abusive police custody diverted from its legal purpose”, according to the official terms of this complaint. The latter will be filed with the Paris judicial court this Friday for “invoke the liability of the State for gross negligence”he confides to franceinfo.

During her police custody at the 11th arrondissement police station, the young journalist, freelancer and regular contributor to the news site, refused to hand over the unlock codes for her cell phone, according to the media Blast, which caused her to earned an extension of his police custody.

A Blast journalist in police custody: under Macron, informing is a crime

She is currently detained at the 11th police station since 10 a.m. yesterday, for having covered a demonstration in front of the headquarters of the arms company Exxelia, suspected of having delivered… pic.twitter.com/ujSEhuUZ12

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She was arrested with six other people after their “introduction” in the Paris premises of a company “responsible in particular for manufacturing chips integrated into Israeli drones destined for Palestine”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. It was during a demonstration that she was covering, led by a collective and which took place in front of the headquarters of Exxelia, the defense company, that she was arrested. This journalist has been working for several weeks on an investigation concerning French arms sales to Israel. The NGO Reporters Without Borders called for his release.