The public prosecutor’s office and the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) brought legal action against several French telephone/internet companies (ORANGE, FREE, BOUYGUES TELECOM, etc.) to put an end to the disturbance of public order and damage caused by allowing their subscribers access to the petain.net website.
The public prosecutor argued that the purpose of the website, presented as a nationalist music streaming platform, was to convey a xenophobic, homophobic, and fascist ideology and to promote Nazi Germany. This was supported by findings that some of the music constituted criminal offences, stigmatising people of Jewish and Muslim faiths, foreigners or non-white people, as well as people with disabilities or homosexuals.
For a few excerpts that we do not wish to reproduce here, you can consult the decision: https://fr.scribd.com/document/939607471/TJ-Paris-09-10-2025-25-55485
As the identity of the website owner could not be obtained, nor that of the domain name owner, the public prosecutor had no choice but to seek assistance from internet service providers.
The decision is interesting from a procedural standpoint, even if the content and harmful nature of the website left little room for doubt.
Court of Justice – 9 October 2025 – petain.net
