On 18 November 2025, MP Paul Vannier published a message on his X account attacking our magazine Screen Watch, accusing the survey it conducted in partnership with IFOP of “serving the far right’s Islamophobic agenda.” Worse still, the message included a screenshot of the “Who We Are” page of our website, deliberately highlighting—underlined in blue marker—the address of our newsroom.

Following this act of endangerment and the wave of threats that followed, Global Watch Analysis decided to leave the compromised premises and relocate the newsroom to temporary, anonymised offices. A report was submitted to the Ministry of the Interior, which set up police vigilance to protect the exposed location.

Global Watch Analysis instructed lawyer Richard Malka to file a complaint against MP Paul Vannier based on paragraph 223-1-1 of the Criminal Code which states that “the act of revealing, disseminating or transmitting, by any means whatsoever, information relating to the private, family or professional life of a person that makes it possible to identify or locate them with the aim of exposing them or their family members to a direct risk of harm to their person or property, which the perpetrator could not have ignored, is punishable by three years’ imprisonment and a €45,000 fine.”

The same article increases the penalty to five years’ imprisonment and a €75,000 fine when the victims of such endangerment work in high-risk professions such as police officers or journalists, or belong to categories requiring special protection, such as minors or people with disabilities.

Following the statement issued by GWA to alert public opinion to the endangerment of our editorial team by the MP Paul Vannier, forty-eight members of Parliament submitted a request to the Public Prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, to report this action as “likely to constitute the offense of incitement to murder and endangerment of the lives of others.” This was done on the basis of Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which states: “Any constituted authority, any public officer or civil servant who, in the exercise of their duties, becomes aware of a crime or an offense is required to inform the Public Prosecutor without delay and to transmit to that magistrate all information, reports, and documents relating thereto.”

Full Transcript of the Request Addressed to the Public Prosecutor

Madame Public Prosecutor,

As members of the French National Assembly, we hereby wish to report facts that may constitute an offence, in accordance with Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

On 18 November 2025, Mr. Paul Vannier, Member of Parliament for the 5th constituency of Val-d’Oise, reacting to an IFOP survey entitled “On the relationship to Islam and Islamism among Muslims in France,” posted the following message on the social network X:

“This bogus ‘survey’ by IFLOP, designed to serve the far-right’s Islamophobic agenda, is commissioned by a media outlet employing experts and consultants including ‘Libération’s’ new darling, Nora Bussigny.”

This message was accompanied by a screenshot of Écran de veille showing the address of the media outlet, underlined in blue.

Since this publication, journalists Nora Bussigny and Emmanuel Razavi have been subjected to numerous threats.

The insecurity created by Paul Vannier’s message—directly targeting them—has led the editors of Screen Watch to relocate their offices to temporary, anonymised locations.

In a context marked by the deadly attack that targeted the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo after accusations of Islamophobia, such a message, issued by an elected representative of the Nation, may constitute the offence of incitement to murder and endangering the lives of others, as defined by Article 223-1-1 of the Criminal Code:

“The act of revealing, disseminating or transmitting, by any means whatsoever, information relating to the private, family or professional life of a person that makes it possible to identify or locate them with the aim of exposing them or their family members to a direct risk of harm to the person or property, which the perpetrator could not have ignored, is punishable by three years’ imprisonment and a €45,000 fine. When the offence is committed against (…) a journalist (…), the penalties are increased to five years’ imprisonment and a €75,000 fine.”

We thank you for the attention you will give to this request and for any action you may deem appropriate.

Please accept, Madame Public Prosecutor, the assurance of our highest consideration.