Observatoire warns of Bolloré's media concentration threat to French cinema

Key facts

• Three representatives of the Observatoire de la liberté de création wrote the tribune.
• The tribune was published in Le Monde.
• It warns against hyperconcentration by the Bolloré group.
• The focus is on cinema and audiovisual sectors.
• Mechanisms that prevent excesses in these sectors are under threat.
• The threat is linked to the far right.
• The book industry is cited as an example of past excesses.
• The tribune calls for awareness of the risk to creative freedom.