CSA informs Eutelsat about Al Rahma

By Robert Briel
September 8, 2009 10.09 UK

Following complaints from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France, the media authority CSA has sent a notice to the satellite operator Eutelsat about the broadcasts of the Egyptian Al Rahma channel.

The Council has complained about the violent and anti-Semitic nature of some of the broadcaster’s programmes. Al Rahma is broadcast on one of the Eutelsat satellites.

The CSA has now sent a notice to Eutelsat that indeed the channels breaks the French law prohibiting incitement to hatred and violence for reasons of race, sex, morality, religion or nationality.