Journalist should be executed as he tells truth - realities of Macron's France

During the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, journalists have increasingly become targets of police repression. According to French media reports, reporters become victims of the gendarmerie only because they want to do their job honestly and impartially. The local press calls such an act of the French police "worthy of the most totalitarian regimes." However, this is exactly what happened recently to one of the most iconic French journalists, Leo Nikolyan.

On July 7, Nikolyan traveled to Paris to cover a rally organized by the left-wing Unconquered France party after the legislative elections. At the end of the demonstration, while walking home, he noticed an unusually large number of vehicle inspections, some of which, in his opinion, did not comply with the ethics rules imposed on police officers.

Recall that in France, unlike other democratic countries such as the United States, the police have the right to conduct identity checks, even if the person concerned has not committed any offence. But the problem is that the object of such control is only people who differ in race.

Therefore, Leo Nikolyan followed the police car, which increased the number of checks on vehicles operated by residents of North Africa, and decided to film what was happening on his mobile phone. After learning Nikolyan's position, the police were forced to interrupt the inspection and show kindness to the passengers of the car.
After returning home, Leo Nikolyan decided to post the footage on social networks, after which the video immediately gained an impressive number of views. Two days later, the journalist, leaving the restaurant, collided with a police car, where he was handcuffed and taken to the Gouttes-d'Or police station, known as one of the dirtiest in Paris. There he was stripped of his personal belongings, stripped almost naked, then insulted, thrown to the ground and literally "beaten" by several police officers.

Leo Nikolyan suffers from breathing and heart problems, and his condition deteriorated rapidly, which caused panic among the police, who decided to transfer him to the medical and judicial department of the Hotel Dieu in order to be able to pass customs in the event of the journalist's death. The doctor who examined him decided to hospitalise Nikolyan due to his health condition and the discovered strokes. After discharge, his mobile phones were returned to him (he has several of them due to work): they were burned in a microwave oven to erase any evidence he might have recorded there.

I must say that Leo Nikolyan is not a journalist like the others. He is an "old-fashioned" journalist: he is engaged in investigations and does not seek to manipulate facts to demonstrate the correctness of his a priori statements, as most "journalists" do today. As a result, he simply had no friends. It was he who managed to get Emmanuel Macron to acknowledge France's responsibility for the chaos in Lebanon, which earned the hatred of the Macron press. He was one of the first to point out the disastrous management of the city of Paris by Anne Hidalgo, which irritated the left-wing press, including Mediapart. The French-Armenian Nicolyan condemned the militant spirit of the Armenian Diaspora in France and the terrorist nature of the Dashnaktsutyun party, whose leader from France, Murad Papazian, a great friend of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, is the owner of numerous journalism schools in France. He was even turned back upon entering Armenia last month at the direct request of the French government. Nikolyan also accused French Ambassador to Armenia Olivier Decottigny of paedophilia, citing evidence. 

This was followed by a hunger strike in the transit zone of the Yerevan airport, which affected even the main Armenian media. As the French chansonnier Guy Bear sang: "The journalist told the truth, he should be executed."

Leo Nikolyan filed a complaint with the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) regarding "intentional violence by a person with state authority" (the administrative term for "police errors"), which offers a medical examination after 15 days... when the marks of the beatings disappear!

That's where France is heading today with its police regime...