“Shtandart”: the judicial harassment strategy orchestrated by Thierry Clerc and the Russian Vladimir Martus against Bernard Grua

Since 2023, Thierry Clerc and Vladimir Martus have launched, against, Bernard Grua, the spokesperson of the collective No Shtandart in Europe, a series of legal measures: formal notices, police report, criminal complaint, interventions with French authorities, and public communication campaigns. All these initiatives, none of which succeeded in court, fit into a pattern that the European Union recognizes as SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation): actions intended to intimidate and deter critical expression, without any real prospect of success in the courts.