France - Enraged hacker resorts to aggressive methods against French journalist and website

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Judicial authorities urged to respond firmly to attacks against Rue89 and its reporter Grégory Chelli, a French hacker living in the Israeli city of Ashdod, has been using extraordinarily aggressive methods to harass Benoît le Corre, a journalist with the French news website Rue89, ever since the site published Le Corre's profile of Chelli on 29 July. Known by the pseudonym of Ulcan, Chelli made threatening and aggressive calls to Le Corre and his parents and then posted recordings of the (...)

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