The international Idiot

See also: Idiotic (homonymy)

the international Idiot is a Journal French lampoonist founded in 1969 and directed by Jean-Edern Hallier, and sponsored at its beginnings by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Newspaper polemizes above all, being declared independent of any ideology, it will disappear in 1994, following many legal judgments.

From July in October 1989, the international Idiot and his director are condemned to pour 250.000 F with Jack Lang and his wife for “slandering and insults public”, then 100.000 F with Christian Bourgois, the editor of Salman Rushdie, for “abusive matter and invasion of privacy”, 300.000 F with Georges Kiejman for “insults, slandering and invasion of privacy”, and finally 400.000 F with Bernard Tapie for “attacks of an exceptional gravity that neither humor nor the principles governing freedom of the press could justify”, according to the terms of the magistrates' court of Paris.

In July 1991, Jean-Edern Hallier is condemned to fifty thousand francs of fine and 80.000 francs of damages to several associations antiracists, for “provocation with the racial hate”, by the 17th room of the magistrates' court of Paris, following the “qualifiers outrageants or contemptible endeavouring to indicate Jewish as the dregs of humanity” in a leading article of the international Idiot published during the war of the Gulf. In September of the same year, the writer and his newspaper are condemned to pay 800.000 F of damages to Bernard Tapie to have written, in the international Idiot , of defamatory remarks the “, abusive, and attentatoires with his private life”.

Of 1969 with 1972, the newspaper is located in mobility gauchist. Then, after a fallen through attempt at rebirth in 1984, it was started again in 1989. Didier Daenincks denounced the Idiot like a laboratory national-Communist. These charges were in particular relayed by two journalists of the Monde , Edwy Plenel and Olivier Biffaud: “Safe from the reputation of cursed writer that it was rained to build, Jean-Edern Hallier was thus well the principal alibi and the actor first of this shadow theater where, since several years, communist sorcerer's apprentices and neofascist theorists of a " cross; third voie" between Communism and capitalism. All the collection of the international Idiot testifies some.”

Authors

Jean-Edern Hallier, Patrick Besson, Marc-Edouard Nabe, Christian Laborde, Gabriel Matzneff, Jean Dutourd, Michel Déon, Jacques Laurent, Jean Cau, Philippe Sollers, Olivier Bailly, Philippe Muray, Gilles Martin-Chauffier, Charles Dantzig, Benoit Duteurtre, Frederic Berthet, Alain Paucard, Thierry Séchan, Michel Houellebecq, Dominique Noguez, Frederic Beigbeder, Morgan Sportès, Jean-Pierre Péroncel-Hugoz, Laurent Hallier, Philippe of Saint-Robert, Edouard Limonov, Jacques Vergès, Alice Massat, Dominique Lacout, Renaud, Charles Ficat, Frederic Taddéi, Philippe Lecardonnel, Jean-Paul Cruse, Alain de Benoist, Jacques Bacelon, Roch Saüquere, Antony Palou, Marc Cohen, Philippe Palat, Bruno Guigue.

The team of the draftsmen was directed by Gébé (which also signed some texts) and included/understood in particular Konk, Lefred-Thouron, Pascal, Vuillemin, Placid, Captain Cavern, Loup, Tignous.

The former magistrate Jacques Bidalou, that Nabe called " the judge maudit" is only the collaborator present at the Idiot of the revival of 1989 with the last number of March 1994. With the passing of years, it appears in the bear like member of the service inquires, then like person in charge of the service " justice" , finally like " to advise direction". It had its personal team advisers, of which some were never identified by the General informations, in spite of the tight monitoring which they exerted: Gisele Néron, Guy Grall, Christian Lançon, Robert Walmsley, etc In addition, Bidalou were the legal adviser of Jean-Edern Hallier. It is him which, in 1993, challenged the court at the time of the setting on sale fallen through, on the initiative of Bernard Tapie, of the apartment of Hallier.

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