Various interesting things in French : documentaries, etc.

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Petit président, petit portrait. Bien joué Mr le Maire.
Small president, small portrait. Well done Mayor.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930157561270915244

 

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A reader of Jovanovic blog posted a message explaining how the "internment without consent" procedure used against him is normally regulated:

"Your case is deeply disturbing, especially as it appears to be yet another misuse of the procedure for internment without consent, also known as 'hospitalisation at the request of the State representative' (prefectoral procedure). However, this procedure is strictly regulated by the Public Health Code, and can only be triggered if a number of cumulative conditions are met.

For the record, a prefectoral decision to commit a person can only be taken on the basis of a medical certificate drawn up by a psychiatrist, providing detailed evidence of:

- the existence of a proven mental disorder,

- the need for treatment

- the person's refusal of treatment

- and a serious danger to themselves or others

In other words, no hospitalisation can legally be decided without a psychiatrist, who is supposed to have examined the person or to have sufficient evidence, having expressly recommended internment.

Like you, I would therefore be very interested to read the medical certificate drawn up for you. If it exists, it was probably drawn up by a practitioner whom you have never met, which poses a major problem of legitimacy and medical responsibility.

Finally, let me remind you that this procedure must be subject to compulsory judicial review within 12 days of internment, by the liberty and custody judge, to guarantee a minimum of checks and balances. It is also possible to appeal to the Departmental Commission for Psychiatric Care, or even to challenge the legality of the prefectoral order.

You are not alone, Pierre. What you are going through is serious, but it also sheds light on the silent abuses that many people suffer in the shadows. With respect and solidarity.

Spoiler: French

"Votre cas interpelle profondément, d’autant qu’il semble s’agir, une fois de plus, d’un usage abusif de la procédure d’internement sans consentement, aussi appelée hospitalisation à la demande du représentant de l’État (procédure préfectorale). Cette procédure est pourtant strictement encadrée par le Code de la santé publique, et ne peut être déclenchée qu’en présence de plusieurs conditions cumulatives.

Pour mémoire, une décision préfectorale d’internement ne peut être prise que sur la base d’un certificat médical rédigé par un psychiatre, établissant de manière circonstanciée:

- l’existence de troubles mentaux avérés,

- la nécessité de soins,

- le refus de ces soins par la personne,

- et un danger grave pour elle-même ou pour autrui

Autrement dit, aucune hospitalisation ne peut légalement être décidée sans qu’un psychiatre, censé avoir examiné la personne ou disposé d’éléments suffisants, n’ait expressément recommandé l’internement.

Comme vous, je serais donc très curieux de lire ce certificat médical établi à votre sujet. S’il existe, il a probablement été rédigé par un praticien que vous n’avez jamais rencontré, ce qui pose un problème majeur de légitimité et de responsabilité médicale.

Enfin, je me permets de rappeler que cette procédure doit faire l’objet d’un contrôle judiciaire obligatoire dans les 12 jours suivant l’internement, par le juge des libertés et de la détention, pour garantir un minimum de contre-pouvoir. Il est également possible de saisir la Commission départementale des soins psychiatriques, voire de contester la régularité de l’arrêté préfectoral.

Vous n’êtes pas seul, Pierre. Ce que vous vivez est grave, mais il éclaire aussi les abus silencieux que beaucoup subissent dans l’ombre. Avec respect et solidarité."

 

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Now it's the turn of TV Liberté. The PTB closed their bank account without explanation. Elise Blaise explain the details. Some extracts:

"Well, it seems, France is still democratic, so we could still say that in theory, these are things that shouldn't happen, and in reality, well, you and I, we know, Nicolas, it happens more and more often.

It also happens on local personalities, It happens to local personalities too, a little mayor who, because he's a mayor, opened his mouth when he shouldn't have, saw himself exfiltrated from his bank. Well, we're coming to some absolutely crazy considerations, and that's nothing new at all, it's not the exemplary French way either.

Martial mentioned it in his communication, it happened to Farage, Nigel Farage in Great Britain in 2023, and then they had specified exactly the terms, they had fired him for ideological non-conformity, so at least, it had the merit of being clear. At least in England they don't beat about the bush, we tell you that you think wrong so you get out. So we understood that it was more or less the same problem for us but it wasn't marked.

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But in fact what's amusing, in inverted commas, if it wasn't so dramatic, what's amusing is that we can see that this repression is crescendoing. We know that at TVL we've experienced censorship on YouTube, so first they cut your videos, then they prevent you from publishing them, then they delete your channel on YouTube for ages, and we even had a channel that literally disappeared overnight, Several years ago. We had to rebuild the whole thing, so now it's TVL's main channel, which by the way will soon have a million subscribers. It's funny when you always reach critical thresholds like that, which are very symbolic, something happens that says 'sit back and don't move' because it's starting to cast a bit of a shadow. And so we'd already got used to censorship of our distribution channels, and now it's bank censorship.

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It's clearly political, it's not linked to the keeping of the accounts because they're clean, so from that point on it's obviously political, that's all there is to it. And it's funny because we've got a banker in power, so we're thinking that maybe this is a method that will be duplicated and used massively until the end of his mandate, I don't know.

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The problem is that they dare everything, they dare everything, in other words, they can see that their rhetoric no longer holds water, they can see that everyone realises that these are authoritarian methods, but they don't give a damn. And they're not wrong to do so, because in reality we can see that there is an absolutely insane popular apathy.

The full video: