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As of Thursday morning they were three ministers at the bedside of TV5 Monde, the victim of a cyber attack in the night Wednesday to Thursday. Bernard Cazeneuve (Indoor), Laurent Fabius (Foreign Affairs) and Fleur Pellerin (Culture) held to reaffirm their determination in the face “terrorists.” Fleur Pellerin has repeated on his Twitter account, speaking “a real terrorist act,” a step ahead of the Secretary of State for the Francophonie, Annnick Girardin, who spoke it, “a disgusting and cowardly act” .

Even Prime Minister responded promptly, also on Twitter, condemning “an unacceptable interference with freedom of information and expression.” There reiterated from the Loire, where he is traveling: “Communications companies can be victims of attacks and cyber attacks. This is probably one of the major challenges of our society. “ While nobody, not even the police seized the investigation still has any idea what happened TV5 Monde, the government, it sends the sound.

This extensive communication is not by chance. On Monday, the National Assembly began consideration of the bill on intelligence. Officially, he is not an anti-terrorism law, but the wording was accelerated after the attacks of January. Since it was introduced by the Cabinet on March 19, civil society alert against possible abuses draconian. A mobilization of civil liberties advocates and digital players succeeded skepticism wins the Chamber or the executive. According to The Chained Duck, Christiane Taubira have expressed doubts at close: “The law on intelligence, which allows an invasion of privacy, is the opposite of my ideas. “

17 hours in a large gilded salon of the Ministry of Culture, the political instrumentalization of the cyber attack against TV5 Monde was even more eloquent. After a short introduction on “the necessary protection against media terrorism” Fleur Pellerin has given way to a very martial Bernard Cazeneuve. “I do not have any information on what happened technically. There is just a claim, he starts. But there is strong evidence that allows us to think that this is a terrorist act. “

Before the news channels continuously, Bernard Cazeneuve then donned the costume of VRP Intelligence Bill: “Our country, France, is currently the target of an intense threat. That’s why we hire 500 additional agents to the Directorate General of Internal Security (RPS), which we are allocating 233 million euros, etc., etc., etc. “

At the back of the room, Patrick Calvar, head of ISB, listen carefully. The Ministry of Communication has never been better name.