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French Magazine Editor Jailed for Spy Photo Renault car.
PARIS A publisher for a book Auto Plus weekly French automotive buff, is in jail this week on the publication a year ago of spy photos with a future Renault SA small vehicle.
Bruno Thomas, editor of the magazine's New What's New section, spent Wednesday night in jail somewhere in Paris, held incommunicado by the prosecutor investigating claims that Renault is an act of industrial espionage.
By bringing the charges, our intention is clearly to protect trade secrets and intellectual property of Renault in a competitive environment tense and not to attack a magazine, said Christian Husson, Renault top lawyer, in a statement for the rest, we let the courts how to handle the case.
However, Thomas's arrest is not what we wanted, a Renault spokesman told the media.
Renault a year ago brought charges against an unknown person for industrial espionage that led to photos and information about future cars section published in Thomas, he said, the judge chose his methods, and they are, effectively, spectacular.
Arresting a journalist on spy photos is pretty sensational, but the case took a political dimension it has strengthened into a category of interest Two French ministers have fallen on opposite sides of the case.
Christine Lagarde, Minister of Economy, agrees with determined action on the principle of the protection of inventions, patents, trademarks and designs of the court, because it is a sector in which France really has a solid asset.
Christine Albanel, minister of culture and communication, she said the government to strengthen the freedom of the press laws, I am always uncomfortable when a journalist is arrested and a newspaper is searched, and I want you I remember the intangible commitment to the principle of freedom of information.
About 10 police officers and a prosecutor of Versailles raided Auto Plus offices for eight hours, taking computers and documents with them as they searched for clues to the identity of the offending photographer.
Laurent Chiapello, editor of the magazine, told the media that he did not understand research.
This publication has been around for 60 years, he said from the automotive press is born for automakers, some editorial content is to their advantage, sometimes it is not.
When it is to their advantage, they are happy to us when it is not, we see that they have other methods We are very surprised by this procedure and these reactions.
Said the spokesman Renault is a very delicate situation for us journalists are not our friends, but we work together, we charge didn t a journalist or magazine espionage in favor.
Renault, like with other car manufacturers, often talks about its future products when it suits the company's strategy, he noted There is a symbiotic relationship with magazines and journals in the automotive industry, with controlled leaks future information.
If Auto Plus, said the spokesman, the information was too far in the future and too precise, and the automaker wants to catch the person who took the picture, as it probably works at Renault.
Auto Plus defends his action and that of his editor, which is supported by Reporters Without Borders, an international group based in France that deals mostly with journalists arrested by political opponents.
What's more, Auto Plus does not change its policy towards the publication of photos that automakers have yet to release.
This week the number has an image of the Renault Alpine, the small coupe whose existence the automaker continue to deny, with a photo of the Megane Scenic 3 due in 2009.
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