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Published on 26 January 2004

FRENCH BROADCAST MEDIA AUTHORITY RAPS ARAB TV

The President of the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), the French Administrative Broadcasting Authority, Dominique Baudis has firmly condemned the "intolerable pictures and comments" broadcast by Al Manar, the satellite TV station of the Lebanese Hizbullah.



Baudis made this statement following a complaint by CRIF about the violently anti-Semitic program "Al Shatat" aired by Al Manar from Lebanon. "Al Shatat (Diaspora) was a catalogue of the worst anti-Semitic accusations, from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to blood libel", said Haim Musicant, CRIF's Director-General.

Baudis added that he sent a request to the French Attorney-General to see what the French authorities could do to stop the broadcast of such hate material on French soil. "The CSA has decided to go to law to put a definitive end to the retransmission in our country of a foreign channel whose broadcasts seriously affect the respect of the human person."

The Al Manar TV program is beamed down from a satellite.

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