Far left French leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon banned the TV program "Quotidien" from his party press events because, in essence, what they recorded a year ago is now used as evidence in a "politically motivated" court case : he and his entourage (including other elected MPs from LFI) threw a tantrum, disrupted justice, ruffled with a cop and a representative of the prosecution during a seizure -part of a whole series- mandated at his offices in an investigation about misuse of Europarliament means and irregularities in the finances of his presidential bid. It was partly captured on video which was played in current court proceedings.
Mélenchon wrote as much in a blog published Sunday :
"Without « Quotidien » there's no case against us. Their edited, cooked up images published by the show are the only argument and « evidence » presented."Of course this is couched in a larger argument of being persecuted by the Powers That Be and the press serving their masters / being overwhelmingly biased against his party, but the shitposter in me can only notice he's banning them now right on the heels of court hearings, and not at any point in the past year despite this video record having been in circulation since the events and being the focal point of all the debate and ridicule sent Mélenchon's way.
If you're curious, here's the salient part of said video. You're losing a bit on the granular level if you don't understand the language but I think there's plenty to see with just the images...
"We're not gangsters or bandits, go and do your police job elsewhere."