The court in St. Petersburg began to consider the case on the ban on the quote by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre “Any anti-communist is a bastard...”

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg began to consider the claim of the prosecutor’s office to ban links with a quote from the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre “Any anti-communist is a bastard...”. to this . drew attention The publication “Zaks.ru”

The agency believes that the phrase contains signs of “humiliation of human dignity based on political, ideological hatred or enmity.” In total, the prosecutor's office plans to ban 42 links with a quote from the French philosopher, but the lawsuit was filed against Alexei Filippov, a member of the St. Petersburg branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. One of the links to be banned leads to his post.

According to Filippov’s representative Tatyana Dyachkova, the prosecutor’s claims are “incomprehensible and incorrect.” At the meeting, she asked the prosecutor why only Filippov became a defendant in the lawsuit. During the discussion, the plaintiff said that the St. Petersburg communist should be responsible for all 42 domains.

The meeting was postponed until October 25 so that the prosecutor's office could prepare screenshots of all the pages that it proposes to ban.

In February, the court fined Filippov 10 thousand rubles because of Sartre’s quote “Any anti-communist is a bastard...”. Experts from the Center for Expertise at St. Petersburg State University noted that it contains signs of inciting hatred on ideological grounds, and the police drew up a report under Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code.