I received this press release via e-mail; since I can't find it online, I will post it in full for the time being:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7/30/2010
French Foreign Ministry Attaché: activists will "pay" for Haiti prank
CRIME responds to new threats
Following the Committee for the Repayment of the Indemnity Money Extorted from Haiti (CRIME)’s first press conference on July 22, a man who identified himself only as “Olivier” from the French foreign ministry launched a campaign of intimidating late night phone calls and text messages to CRIME spokesperson Laurence Fabre's personal, unlisted, cell phone.
Last Saturday night, in a telephone call with Fabre, he stated that the French government was already moving forward with the prosecution of those behind the July 14 hoax announcement. "You don’t know what the hell is going to happen to you,” he told Fabre. Claiming to be “in contact with the people who will actually arrest you,” he warned Fabre that “they” will “make you pay.” (See below for audio.)
The telephone directory reveals the number from which the calls to Fabre were made to be the phone number of none other than the French foreign ministry’s attaché for information systems and communications, Olivier Poudade.
Today, Fabre responded publicly to these threats:
"From the warships Charles X sent to extort financial compensation from Haiti for the slaves who had liberated themselves in the Haitian revolution, to the overthrow of a Haitian president who had the temerity to demand restitution, CRIME is familiar with the French government’s history of violent retaliation on this issue. Even so, we are quite amazed at the peculiar lengths to which those working on this file at the French foreign ministry appear willing to go to punish those seeking to raise awareness about Haiti’s independence debt."
"We urge the French government to publicly clarify whether the recent statements by the foreign ministry’s attaché for information systems and communications about the government’s legal action were the official position of his employer: Is France really prepared to take legal action over a spoof announcement that offered such a shining example of what the French government should do to honour the values of liberty, equality and fraternity?"
"If Mr. Poudade's statements were not his employer's official position, under what authority was the French foreign ministry's attaché acting?"
AUDIO:
“My first name is Oliver…Olivier”: http://tiny.cc/2sl1y
“I am in contact with the people that will actually arrest you:” http://tiny.cc/qpr6c
“You’ll get prosecuted and you’ll probably get jail time…You don’t know what the hell is going to happen to you”: http://tiny.cc/zkx9u
“They will want to make you pay”: http://tiny.cc/3f6m3
CRIME is a group of American, Canadian and French activists who have taken credit for a July 14 Yes Men-style hoax announcement that Paris would pay $21 billion of restitution to Haiti for money extorted from the former French colony following Haitian independence.
CONTACT: Laurence Fabre – laurencefrancinefabre@gmail.com
www.diplomatiegov.info