Touche pas à mon poste!" show broadcast on April 22, 2022: response to plaintiffs
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Arcom was alerted to a sequence broadcast on the program Touche pas à mon poste! on C8 on April 22, 2022, during which a columnist referred to the political convictions expressed by another columnist on the show.
According to the European Court of Human Rights, freedom of expression applies " not only to information or ideas that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any section of the population ".
Consequently, the Authority did not intervene against the service editor.