Search and seizure operations - Legality of the authorisation: The First president of the Paris Court of Appeal approves the authorisations and the conduct of the inspections carried out in the sports press sector (Aujourd’hui Sport; l’Equipe)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By two orders dated August 31, 2012, the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal validated respectively the legality of the order authorizing the inspections carried out on the premises of the various entities of the Amaury group, and the conduct of these inspections, in the context of the complaint filed by Aujourd'hui Sport. It should be remembered that an initial order of the Chief Judge of the Paris Court of Appeal had been censured by the Court of Cassation in this case for having wrongly annulled the decision to authorise inspections because of the specific protection that should be enjoyed by media companies (Cass. crim., 11 January 2012,