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The French Big Brother Awards event that took place on 20 January 2007 has brought the exclusion from this competition of Mr. Sarkozy, for having already won three of the Orwell prizes during the last three years and thus by far outclassing his competitors.

This year, the jury decided to eliminate Minister Sarkozy, the only personality having been nominated 6 times in 7 editions of the event, for multiple attacks to private life and for having actively promoted surveillance in general.

The organizers of the event, in creating the diplomas for the awards were inspired by a real picture of a fossil found in Niger in 2000, of the biggest crocodile that lived 110 million years ago, called by US palaeontologists, "Sarcosuchus imperator". The specialists considered that the reptile disappeared completely for not having intelligently foreseen the future and adapt. The organizers of the French Big Brother Awards considered that the resemblance with a present character was not fortuitous.

The winner of the State award was Jacques Lebrot, “security” sub-prefect of Seine-St-Denis for having deprived of jobs several thousand of people with police records created just on the basis of suspicion and discrimination, violating their right to the presumption of innocence.

Sony-BMG company took the enterprise award for its "rootkit", a spy software installed in the sold CDs in order to control the usage of the CD, ironically, by those who had became the rightful owners by buying the respective CD.

The Locality Orwell prize was given to Paul Anselin, Mayor of Ploërmel in Morbihan, for having installed more than 50 video-surveillance cameras in a locality with 9000 inhabitants and zero degree of delinquency and for the creation of a green number encouraging denunciations.

Orwell Novlang prize was awarded to Frédéric Péchenard, director of the Judiciary Police who supports the genetic filing of the entire population arguing that the innocent persons could thus be rid of any suspicion.

For the entire work, the award was won by Minister of Justice Pascal Clément, who had previously been nominated and awarded in 2004 for being a strong supporter of the electronic bracelet for delinquents and for having imposed it retroactively to the sexual delinquents after their liberation. He won the award for 2006 for his entire work having in view his disrespect for institutions and human rights and for his determination to imprison and control.

The Voltaire prize for vigilance was taken, ex-aequo, by the school directors who have refused to fill in the children database (Base-eleves) and by Pierre Muller, the webmaster of Ordinateurs-de-vote.org (ex recul democratique.org), for his permanent work in showing why the electronic vote is a false good idea and a threat to democracy.

Big Brother Awards France (only in French, 20.01.2007)
http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/Palmares-2006-des-Big-Brother-Awards-Fr...