ODEBI sent the following message to the french senators, and calls all internet users to ask the french senators to reject the graduated response:

French senators must realize that the graduated response is a repressive mechanism totally contrary to the most basic rights of citizens:

- Every citizen has the right to a fair trial before any penalty: it is the independent and impartial judge, and he alone, which is the guardian of freedoms.

- Freedom of expression and information is a fundamental right: it is scandalous that the Committee of Cultural Affairs of the Senate tries to deny it by saying that no european text says that Internet access is a fundamental right . The internet access allows to exercise this freedom of expression and information: terminating access is therefore a clear violation of this freedom. This punishment is completely disproportionate.

- The Committee of Cultural Affairs said that only the “home” access will be terminated: it is therefore a familial punisment. No democracy can accept the infliction of such collective punishment, which was recalled by the former french prime minister Michel Rocard on 22 April 2008: “For me, the possible cutoff of the Internet is a collective punishment prohibited by all our systems of law. The meaning of the laws is clear and there is no sophisticated problem to understand that. ”

French senators must ensure that:

- Only the judge can decide on a punishment.

- Terminating access of families, ie imposing a collective punishment, must be clearly prohibited.