Press release - Paris, March 19, 2008 By Rina Sherman
Jean-Baptiste Rivoire, Canal + journalist was indicted March 17, 2008 for committing premeditated intentional violence on the person of his colleague Didier Contant, a journalist who died in February 2004 while the latter was preparing to publish an investigation into the death of the monks of Tibhirine.
At the end of January 2004, Didier Contant, former editor of the Gamma agency, returned to Algeria of an investigation into the abduction and murder of monks Tibhirine in 1996. In Paris, he learned that Jean-Baptiste Rivoire Canal + authentic received an email from Amnesty International in London, accused of working for Algerian and French secret services and harassing the wife of Abdelkader Tigha, with the discrediting of Parisian newsrooms, including that of the newspaper Le Figaro Magazine, which was to publish its investigation.
Defector Algerian army, Tigha involved the Algerian army in the killing of monks, thesis defended by the team of Canal +, as the members of the lobby "Who kills whom? . The former sergeant was a key witness for emissions "Monday investigation" and "90 Minutes" of Canal +, as well as for the complaint filed in December 2003 by Mr Baldwin (FIDH) for families of victims monks. Previous investigations have been Didier Contant respectively published in the Pilgrim magazine in February 2003 and in Le Figaro Magazine in December 2003. During his last investigative reporter e had found new witnesses indicating that the monks were murdered by the GIA and he had gathered evidence casting doubt on the person of Abdelkader Tigha.
Despite the seriousness of the charges, no fellow Parisian newsrooms did not ask the reporter to Canal Plus to provide supporting evidence. Reached deep into his reputation and his honor, Didier Contant does not support the slander and died in mysterious circumstances. The investigation concluded it was suicide. One reporter asks the question of responsibility for his colleague from Canal + in his death: Jean-François Kahn in the weekly Marianne. First sentenced for defamation, Kahn won the appeal trial, which established a link between the actions of journalists from Canal + and the death of Didier Contant.
Convinced of the innocence of Didier Contant and the adverse effect that the charges of the team of Canal + had on this veteran journalist, Rina Sherman -cons led an investigation into the death of his companion. The findings of the investigation allowed him to file a complaint with a civil party in deliberate violence against Rivoire Canal + and publish a book, The eighth death Tibhirine (Tatamis Editions, Paris and Editions Lazhari Labter & Evening Algeria, Algiers) in 2007. Rina Sherman will release soon a film of my Paris exiles, who reflects on freedom of expression is a fundamental right of human beings.
Contact: @ huitieme.mort.tibhirine neuf.fr or view the file "The other investigation Tibhirine" of Golias Magazine, no. 115
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