Ernest Moret was interrogated by UK counter-terrorist police when he arrived in London on Tuesday
The European politicians accused the British government of infringing basic human rights and abusing anti-terrorism laws.
Moret, 28, a rights manager at the radical publisher Éditions la Fabrique, had travelled to London for a book fair. He was quizzed by police about participation in a recent protest in France andIn their letter to Braverman, the MEPs – including politicians from, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Spain – accused the British government of complicity in the French government’s crackdown on protest.
They added: “We consider these actions to be outrageous and unjustifiable infringements of basic principles of freedom of expression and an example of the abuse of anti-terrorism. Meanwhile, two leftwing French MPs, Aurélie Trouvé and Hadrien Clouet, have written to France’s minister of justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, asking him to “shed full light” on the French government’s role in Moret’s arrest.
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