That is the question we ask ourselves after these dizzy recent weeks of a political and media cabal against us, writes Mediapart publishing editor Edwy Plenel in this op-ed article, in which he offers an answer and responds to the extraordinary call by former French prime minister Manuel Valls that Mediapart be “removed from public debate.”
During a trip to South-East Asia over the past two weeks, I watched from afar, stupefied, at the incredible snowballing controversy to which the Mediapart team, united against adversity, was confronted. When I left France on November 6th, I thought I had given the necessary clarifications in two television programmes broadcast the previous day; that of Mouloud Achour on Canal Plus (see here) and that of Apolline de Malherbe on BFM TV (see here).
