Carrefour stops selling “Rivarol”, the far-right newspaper – Yahoo News

The weekly saw its approval withdrawn in May by the Joint Commission for Publications and Press Agencies. which was deprived of its approval by the Joint Commission for Publications and Press Agencies (CPPAP). “Following the decision of the Joint Commission for Publications and Press Agencies of the Ministry of Culture not to renew the registration certificate issued for the publication Rivarol for the benefit of the press aid scheme, Carrefour has taken the decision not to sell this weekly any more,” the group told AFP. Founded in 1951, Rivarol (named after the counter-revolutionary Antoine de Rivarol) is a flagship publication of the French far right. The newspaper saw its approval withdrawn in May by the CPPAP, a measure which abolishes tax advantages and reduced postal rates enjoyed by newspapers. Its director of publication, Jérôme Bourbon (Fabrice of his real first name), was condemned fifteen times, in particular for incitement to hatred, contestation of crimes against humanity and racist insults. Last December, he had thus been sentenced for contestation of crimes against humanity and incitement to hatred against Jews in reason for a video in which he evoked the Vel d’Hiv roundup. “Racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and Holocaust deniers should no longer have the right of citizenship” He affirmed in particular that Marshal Pétain had “always opposed this that there is the slightest persecution or attack of any kind against French Jews. stood against the “indirect public aid” from which Rivarol benefited. The representative council of Jewish institutions in France (Crif) welcomed Carrefour’s decision. “Racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and Holocaust-denying rags should no longer have the right of citizenship, in distribution as on social networks”, affirmed the institution on Twitter.Read moreThe CPPAP is a body composed equally of representatives of the State and press professionals. It is responsible for deciding whether publications are eligible for the economic regime of the press, according to a certain number of criteria. Its regulations specify that “negationist publications, inciting racial hatred, xenophobia and those undermining the dignity of the human person” cannot benefit from this regime. Read also: This Family Planning poster with a pregnant man ulcerates the far rightFor Serge Nedjar, the far right has not progressed with CNewsVIDEO – La Face Katché – Marie-José Pérec: “When I arrived here, I realized that I was black. Some said to me: ‘Dirty Black, go home!'”