{{Short description|French writer, publisher and journalist}}
thumb|Michel Sitbon '''Michel Sitbon''' (born in 1959 in Tunis) is a French writer, publisher and journalist. He founded many collectives and associations defending freedom of speech,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Distrilibre |url=https://distrilibre.fr/ |access-date=2019-11-06 |website=distrilibre.fr}}</ref> gender equality, right of asylum or the legalization of cannabis. He is also one of the co-founders of the Nuit Rwandaise (Rwandese Night),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Qui sommes-nous ? |url=https://www.lanuitrwandaise.org/revue/024-qui-sommes-nous.html |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=La Nuit rwandaise |language=fr}}</ref> a review of experts for the truth about the Rwandan genocide.
He notably stood out in 2017 by welcoming migrants every evening in his bookstore rue Keller in Paris, the facts reported by the media Brut are viewed several million times on social networks'''.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michel Sitbon, le libraire qui héberge les migrants pour la nuit |url=https://www.telerama.fr/autres/michel-sitbon,N5228170.php |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Télérama.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-25 |title=Ce libraire parisien ouvre ses portes aux migrants tous les soirs depuis deux ans. (VIDÉO) |url=https://positivr.fr/librairie-parisienne-accueille-migrants/ |access-date=2019-11-06 |website=POSITIVR |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
== Biography == Born in 1959 in Tunisia, Michel Sitbon comes from a family of journalists and writers, Guy Sitbon and Nicole Muchnik who officiated at the time as correspondents in the Maghreb and participated in the ''Maghreb Circus''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brahim |first=Le Courrier de l'Atlas : Nejma |title=La guerre d'Algérie, couverte par l'AFP au "Maghreb Circus" |website=Courrier de l'Atlas |url=https://www.lecourrierdelatlas.com/il-raconte-la-guerre-d-algerie-couverte-par-l-afp-au-maghreb-circus--20240 |access-date=2023-04-30 |language=fr}}</ref>
Very early politically committed to freedom of speech, Michel Sitbon joined his father to assume responsibility for the activities of erotic publications and pink messaging services in the early 1980s. This earned him particular competition with Xavier Niel at the 'era. This time of mobilization gives him the opportunity to question the policy of good morals which then restricted access to certain content, first in the press then by the minitel<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/juri/id/JURITEXT000007066633 |title=Cour de Cassation, Chambre criminelle, du 17 novembre 1992, 91-84.848, Publié au bulletin |website=Lgifrance|access-date=2023-04-30}}</ref> and finally via the Internet.
=== Cannabis legalization advocate === He also participates in the Cannabis Sans Frontières project, which presented a list in the European elections in Île de France in 2009 and 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Aubron Arnaud |date=June 2009 |title=4000 petits votes pour Cannabis sans frontières |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-nos-vies-connectees/20090609.RUE0878/4000-petits-votes-pour-cannabis-sans-frontieres.html |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Rue89, nouvelobs.com}}.</ref> He is currently Honorary President.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cannabis sans frontières présentera 5 listes aux élections européennes |date=19 January 2014 |website=Newsyoung |language=fr |url=http://newsyoung.fr/cannabis-sans-frontieres-presentera-5-listes-aux-elections-europeennes/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008172403/http://newsyoung.fr/cannabis-sans-frontieres-presentera-5-listes-aux-elections-europeennes/ |archive-date=8 October 2016}}.</ref> In 2019, he co-founded the Legalize<ref>{{Cite web |title=Réformer sans attendre ! Legalize 2019 pour une régulation du cannabis |url=http://legalize2019.eu/ |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Legalize 2019 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> movement with Safia Lebdi and Farid Ghehiouèche. He thus wrote the central proposal of this transversal collective: ''Une légalisation du cannabis au niveau européen pour favoriser les défavorisés''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notre programme |url=http://legalize2019.eu/home/notre-programme/ |access-date=2019-11-06 |website=Legalize 2019 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
* ''Plaidoyer pour les sans-papiers'', Paris, L'Esprit frappeur, 1998. {{ISBN|978-2844050205}} * ''Un génocide sur la conscience'', Paris, L'Esprit frappeur, 1998. {{ISBN|2844050654}} * ''2 bis rue de Tourville, la sécurité militaire au cœur de la République'', Paris, Aviso, 2011. {{ISBN|2844052479}} * ''Mitterrand le cagoulard. Synarchistes et cagoulards, voyage aux sources de l'extrême-droite française'', Paris, Aviso, 2012. {{ISBN|2844052460}} * ''Rwanda, 6 avril 1994. Un attentat français ?'', Paris, Aviso, 2012. {{ISBN|9782844052575}} * ''La mémoire n, la synarchie aux sources du fascisme'', Paris, Aviso, 2014. {{ISBN|1093453044}}
== References == <references />{{Cannabis in France}}{{Authority control}}
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