The two French negotiators of ACTA file criminal “complaint against unknown person” over press release issued by Act Up-Paris last year
Last year (20th January 2011), two civil servants of Bercy (the French Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs), Patrice Guyot and Jean-Philippe Müller, ordered Act Up-Paris to remove a press release on the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) from its website in which they were quoted. In this press statement, Act Up had stated that the negotiators were ‘responsible for the denial of democracy.’ The negotiators threatened to sue Act Up-Paris and take the author of the press release or any accomplice of the libel to court. We refused to give in to their threat and did not hear anything from them since then.