Paris (AFP) – A hundred French personalities of culture and politics, including former minister Aurélie Filippetti or director Jean-Michel Ribes, launched Sunday a support committee to Italian writer Erri De Luca, prosecuted for incitement to sabotage the railway line Lyon-Turin.
“As defenders of freedom of expression, we do not accept that a writer is prosecuted for his words “, say the signatories of this appeal to be published Monday in Liberation, asking” the French government to give the order to train network to withdraw “the complaint against the writer.
” So that France has to mobilize to defend freedom of expression, how could let a writer risking prison for his public statements? “added the support committee, which also launched a website ().
Among the signatories, mostly from left, are the publishers Antoine Gallimard and Otchakovsky-Paul Laurens, writers Marie Desplechin, Annie Ernaux, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Fred Vargas and Geneviève Brisac, actor Philippe Caubère, directors Jean-Michel Ribes, Stanislas Nordey Aries and Frederic Garcia, comedians Alévêque Christophe and François Morel, former ministers of housing Cécile Duflot and Culture Aurélie Filippetti or the director of France Culture Olivier Poivre d’Arvor.
Erri De Luca, 64, is on trial at the court of Turin since late January for a sentence imposed on the high-speed line project between Lyon and Turin. He is accused of inciting sabotage of the site, in an interview with several Italian media in 2013.
Erri de Luca, who defends his freedom of expression in a small book, “The opposite word” , fights against the Franco-Italian company LTF –filiale Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and (RFI) -., which built the line and the origin of the complaint
The next hearing in his trial was set for March 16. The author of “Montedidio” Femina foreign prize in 2002, ecologist always long and militant extreme left, risk between one and five years in prison.
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