[translated from the French]:

French Court attempts to block Internet Access to the AAARGH WEBSITE

WE recall that the revisionist Internet site AAARGH (Association des anciens amateurs des récits de guerre et d’holocauste) has been the subect of a lawsuit (see our message of March 8, 2005) titled “Revisionist Website AAARGH confronted by summary procedure”) which has pitted eight anti-racist associations, which had decided to render the website inaccessible at least in France thanks to a web filter system, against its US host server and ten access and service providers.

In its last procedural decision, dated April 28, 2005, the Tribunal ordered a certain number of extremely restrictive provisional measures against the US server and the access providers which had neither suppressed access to the website yet, nor agreed to turn over to the (French) justice authorities the name of the site’s author or webmaster.

The next court hearing will take place on Monday May 30, 2005 at 2 pm in the court room of the supplementary Première Chambre of the TGI in Paris, where the President Emmanuel Binoche has provided according to the procedural ordinance which he handed down on April 20, 2005 that he will

• “verify if the [US] companies OLM-LLC, Globat, LLC and ThePlanet.com Internet Services have complied with the [French legal] obligations imposed on them, and if they have not, will examine any request for liquidation of the provisional obligation”
• “examine the requests which will in that event be presented by the plaintiff associations with the intention of putting an end to access from within France to the content of the website identified in the complaint against the access providers.”

Today it is still possible to access easily the AAARGH website via the following address:

http://anonymouse.ws/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://vho.org/aaargh/

It provides advice to readers to defeat any future filters by making use of anonymous mirror sites in the event that the TGI, “which lives in the most complete unreality,” may order such filtering.