His employer claimed he was stopped over his alleged involvement in French pension age protests.
Ernest Moret was detained by police at London St Pancras International railway station on Monday eveningTwo publishers and the National Union of Journalists have condemned the police after anti-terror laws were used to arrest a French publisher as he arrived in London.On Tuesday evening, police confirmed that the arrested man had been released on bail.
The Met said in a statement: "At around 1930hrs on Monday, 17 April, a 28-year-old man was stopped by ports officers as he arrived at St Pancras station, using powers under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000." They said officers told Mr Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager, he had taken part in demonstrations about President Emmanuel Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in France -In a joint statement Editions La Fabrique with Verso Books said: "The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act - a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make and which seems to clearly indicate...
"[Editions La Fabrique] is a left publisher... we've had months now of massive protests in France, and I think from their perspective anybody who is a dissident or aligned with a dissident publisher is potentially some kind of criminal.
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