Michel Sitbon

Michel Sitbon (born in 1959 in Tunis) is a French writer, publisher and journalist. He founded many collectives and associations defending freedom of speech, gender equality, right of asylum or the legalization of cannabis. He is also one of the co-founders of the Nuit Rwandaise (Rwandese Night), a review of experts for the truth about the Rwanda genocide.

He notably stood out in 2017 by welcoming migrants every evening in his bookstore rue Keller in Paris, the facts reported by the media Brut are viewed several million times on social networks.

Biography
Born in 1959 in Tunisia, Michel Sitbon comes from a family of journalists and writers, Guy Sitbon and Nicole Muchnik who officiated at the time as correspondents in the Maghreb and participated in the Maghreb Circus.

Very early politically committed to freedom of speech, Michel Sitbon joined his father to assume responsibility for the activities of erotic publications and pink messaging services in the early 1980s. This earned him particular competition with Xavier Niel at the 'era. This time of mobilization gives him the opportunity to question the policy of good morals which then restricted access to certain content, first in the press then by the minitel and finally via the Internet.

Cannabis legalization advocate
He also participates in the Cannabis Sans Frontières project, which presented a list in the European elections in Île de France in 2009 and 2014. He is currently Honorary President. In 2019, he co-founded the Legalize movement with Safia Lebdi and Farid Ghehiouèche. He thus wrote the central proposal of this transversal collective: Une légalisation du cannabis au niveau européen pour favoriser les défavorisés.