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'''Juan Branco''' ({{IPA-es|ˈxwan ˈbɾaŋko}}, {{IPA-fr|bʁɑ̃ko|lang}}, {{IPA-pt|ˈbɾɐ̃ko|lang}}), full name '''Juan''' '''Paulo''' '''Branco Lopez,''' born on August 26 in ], is a French-Spanish lawyer, writer, journalist and ]. '''Juan Branco''' ({{IPA|es|xwam ˈbɾaŋko|lang}}, {{IPA|fr|ʒɥɑ̃ bʁɑ̃ko|lang}}; born 1989) is a French and Spanish lawyer, political activist, and writer.


The son of Portuguese film producer ], he grew up in a wealthy environment. As a student, he stood out by opposing the ], and became involved in politics, first with ], and then within the ]'s cultural centre during ]'s ]. He was fired the day after the election, when the party reversed its position on Hadopi. Branco was born in Spain and grew up in Paris. While a student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (]), he stood for the ] in local elections. He then worked on the 2012 presidential election campaign of ]'s candidate, ]. After that, he completed his master's degrees followed by his ] in 2014, and became a legal advisor of ] and ] between 2015 and 2019. During this period, he also stood unsuccessfully in the ] as a candidate for the left wing populist party ]. In 2018 he became involved with the ], some of whose members he defended in court ].


Branco has published thirteen books, the most successful of which is ''Crépuscule'' (2019). Selling more than 150,000 copies within a year of publication, the work is a ] against the links that, according to the author, unite ], ] and political leaders in France.
A ] since 2014, he became ]' and ]'s legal advisor in France, after working as a researcher at ], the ] and ]. In 2017, he became a lawyer and defended ]. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully in the ] in ] with the support of ]. He then distanced himself from the party.


He has courted controversy for his involvement with the Russian performance artist ] in the ] affair in 2020.
He participated in the ] in 2018 and defended figures from the movement ], including ] and ]. During the protests, he also published '']'', a bestseller criticising ]'s rise to power and his links with French billionaires who ].


In July 2023, as a member of the legal team of the ]ese opposition leader ], he accused the ] of ] at the ] over the deadly ]. In response, the Senegalese authorities issued an ] against him; he was arrested in August 2023 after entering the country clandestinely and deported to France after spending two nights in prison.
In june 2019, he filed at the ], jointly with Omer Shatz, a 250-page communication on European migration policy, accusing the leaders of the ] of ] over the deaths of thousands of migrants.


== Background and education ==
He became ]'s lawyer from 2022, after the organisation lodged a complaint at ] against ] and ] for non-compliance with financial fair play rules ; and ] opposition leader ]'s lawyer from 2023.
Branco was born in 1989 in ], ], one of the four children of psychoanalyst Dolores Lopez and Portuguese film producer ].<ref name="Match2">{{cite web |date=8 March 2020 |title=Juan Branco, l'avocat qui intrigue |url=https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Politique/Juan-Branco-l-avocat-qui-intrigue-1677637 |work=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=13 May 1999 |title=Portrait: Le joueur des chèques |url=https://www.liberation.fr/portrait/1999/05/13/le-joueur-des-cheques_272787/ |work=]}}</ref> He grew up in the affluent neighbourhood of ] in the ] and attended the ], an elite private school.<ref name="Match2" />


He studied as an undergraduate at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (]) and as a graduate and PhD student at the ],<ref name="Match2" /> and also at ] and ]; obtaining a "maîtrise"{{efn|former French diploma, intermediate between bachelor's and master's.}} in ], a ] in ], another in ], and a ] in ].<ref name=":322">{{Cite web |date=17 February 2020 |title=Affaire Griveaux : ce qu'il faut savoir sur Juan Branco |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/affaire-griveaux-ce-qu-il-faut-savoir-sur-juan-branco-20200217 |access-date= |website=] |language=fr}}</ref>
== Origins and private life ==
Born in Spain in 1989, in the municipality of ], ], Juan Branco is the son of Portuguese film producer ] and Spanish psychoanalyst Dolores López. He grew up in Andalusia and then in Paris, between the ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 December 2018 |title=Juan Branco désosse Macron {{!}} Entretiens |url=https://la-bas.org/la-bas-magazine/entretiens/Juan-Branco-desosse-Macron |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Là-bas si j'y suis |language=fr}}</ref> He has two sisters and a brother.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Santucci |first=Françoise-Marie |title=Le joueur des chèques. |url=https://www.liberation.fr/portrait/1999/05/13/le-joueur-des-cheques_272787/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref> He was naturalized French in 2010.<ref name=":52">Endeweld 2013</ref>


He went on to do ] at ] in 2013<ref name="Match2" /> and wrote a ] on the ] and ], travelling to the ] during the ].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-08-07 |title=Sénégal: qui est Juan Branco, l'avocat franco-espagnol de l'opposant Ousmane Sonko? |url=https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20230807-s%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal-qui-est-juan-branco-l-avocat-franco-espagnol-de-l-opposant-ousmane-sonko |access-date= |website=] |language=fr}}</ref> He defended his thesis on 16 November 2014 at the ].<ref name="Match2" /> He was then employed in 2015 at the ] in ] and at ] in Rome.<ref name=":322" /><ref name="francetvinfo2" />
He lived a "golden childhood" in the ] neighborhood of Paris, being acquainted with celebrities like ] and ].<ref name="lefigaro.fr2">{{Cite web |date=18 February 2020 |title=Juan Branco, itinéraire d'un enfant gâté devenu activiste sans scrupule |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/juan-branco-itineraire-d-un-enfant-gate-devenu-activiste-sans-scrupule-20200218 |access-date=2020-03-08 |language=fr}}</ref>

In 2018 and 2019, he received welfare assistance ('']'') after having defended yellow vest protestors ].<ref name="ReferenceA2">{{Cite web |date=17 February 2020 |title=Affaire Griveaux : Ce qu'il faut savoir sur Juan Branco |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/affaire-griveaux-ce-qu-il-faut-savoir-sur-juan-branco-20200217}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB2">{{Cite web |date=29 April 2019 |title=Les réponses de l'Express à Juan Branco |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/les-reponses-de-l-express-a-juan-branco_2074447.html}}</ref>

== Education ==
=== Ecole alsacienne ===
After an education spent in public schools,<ref name=":62">Mariel Primois Bizot, Au Diable Vauvert, October 3, 2019, ISBN &nbsp;979-10-307-0304-7, p. 128</ref> Branco studied at the ], a private establishment in the 6th arrondissement. In his own words, "one can reproduce and socialize there without fear of being contaminated by bad company". He also claimed to have "great contempt for the conformism of all these heirs".<ref name=":02">{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2019-05-07 |title=Des grandes écoles aux "gilets jaunes" en passant par WikiLeaks : qui est Juan Branco, l'avocat proche de Piotr Pavlenski ? |language=french |website=Franceinfo |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/des-grandes-ecoles-aux-gilets-jaunes-en-passant-par-wikileaks-qui-est-juan-branco-l-auteur-de-crepuscule-en-guerre-contre-macron_3421861.html |url-status=live |access-date=2020-06-30 |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> He used ]s to comment on the physique of his comrades; his comrade ] complained of his actions to the management of the establishment.<ref name="lexpress.fr22">{{Cite web |date=11 February 2019 |title=Juan Branco, le radical chic qui veut la peau de la Macronie |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/juan-branco-le-radical-chic-qui-veut-la-peau-de-la-macronie_2061348.html}}</ref>

=== Masters at Sciences Po, Paris 1, ENS, and Paris IV ===
In 2007, he joined ] (IEP) where he relaunched the film club and was noticed by the director of the establishment, ], who entrusted him with the mission of taking photos to feed his ] account.<ref name=":02" /> Years after he was asked by his widow to deliver a eulogy on behalf of the school's students at his funeral, he said, "All the flattery was instrumental, aimed at absorbing me to make me serve the system".<ref name=":02" />

During his studies at the IEP, he obtained a ] in philosophy and law co-accredited by the ] in 2009,<ref name="ReferenceA2" /><ref name=":110">{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco {{!}} Yale University - Academia.edu |url=https://yale-academia-edu.translate.goog/JuanBranco/CurriculumVitae?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=yale-academia-edu.translate.goog}}</ref> following which he was admitted to the literature and languages department of the ]&nbsp;(ENS Ulm) the same year,<ref name="lexpress.fr22" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=L'annuaire {{!}} a-Ulm |url=https://www-archicubes-ens-fr.translate.goog/lannuaire?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=www-archicubes-ens-fr.translate.goog}}</ref> and finished his bachelor's degree from the IEP the following year.<ref name=":110" />

He obtained an M1 in modern literature in 2011, followed by an M2 in political philosophy and a Masters in public affairs in 2012, accredited by the ] and the IEP of Paris respectively.<ref name="lexpress.fr22" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=MERCIER |first=Clémentine |date=2016-04-10 |title=À 26 ans, Juan Branco conseille les plus grands |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/justice/26-ans-juan-branco-conseille-les-plus-grands-4155418 |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=Ouest-France.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":26"></ref> The following year, he obtained an M2 in geopolitics co-accredited by the ENS Ulm and the University of Paris 1, and became an ] of the ENS.<ref name="ReferenceA2" /><ref name=":110" />

In 2019, '']'' reported that he mentioned on his ] "in charge of a seminar at the École Normale Supérieure", which he was not. Branco replied to the weekly, "It changes absolutely nothing in the facts, whether it is organized by a student or not."<ref name="lexpress.fr22" /><ref name=":02" />

=== Doctor of law ===
Under the guidance of legal historian ], he began a doctorate in international law and legal philosophy. His thesis, defended at the ENS Ulm eight months later, gave him the title of ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-16 |title=Max Planck Institute Luxembourg: Juan Branco |url=http://www.mpi.lu:80/the-institute/senior-research-fellows/juan-branco/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516184101/http://www.mpi.lu:80/the-institute/senior-research-fellows/juan-branco/ |archive-date=2016-05-16 |access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=De l'affaire Katanga au contrat social global : un regard sur la Cour pénale internationale |url=https://www.theses.fr/2014ENSU0004 |publisher=Paris, Ecole normale supérieure |date=2014-11-26 |degree=These de doctorat |first=Juan |last=Branco}}</ref> His work on the ] was rewarded in 2015 with one of the thesis prizes from the Varenne University Institute — which became the Louis-Joinet Prize — in the “international criminal justice” category.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-02 |title=Lauréats 2015 {{!}} Prix Joinet - IFJD |url=https://prix-joinet.ifjd.org/laureats-2015-prix-joinet/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

This doctorate obtained in eight months allowed him to join a regional training center for the profession of lawyer (CRFPA).<ref name=":02" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=10 June 2021 |title=Juan Branco, un tiers maudit, deux tiers mondain |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/juan-branco-un-tiers-maudit-deux-tiers-mondain-10-06-2021-2430404_23.php}}</ref>

== Professional career ==
=== Researcher at Yale, Max Planck and La Sapienza (2013-2016) ===
After having worked with the ] for a year,<ref name=":32">{{Cite magazine |date=25 September 2019 |title=Affaire Griveaux : Qui est Juan Branco, l'avocat qui dit "avoir accompagné" Piotr Pavlenski ? |url=https://www.gqmagazine.fr/pop-culture/article/les-vies-revees-de-juan-branco |url-status=dead |magazine=] |language=FR |edition=French |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021044523/https://www.gqmagazine.fr/pop-culture/article/les-vies-revees-de-juan-branco |archive-date=2021-10-21}}</ref> and as an external collaborator at the ] for another year,<ref name=":02" /> ha was employed in the French department of ] between 2013 and 2014, and became a visiting scholar at ],<ref name=":26" /> where he collaborated with the '']''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Law Journal |url=https://www.yjil.org/ |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=International Law Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2015, he was recruited as a visiting scholar at ],<ref name=":32" /> and as a Senior Research Fellow at the ] Luxembourg for Procedural Law.<ref></ref> He earned eight thousand euros in salary there and specified on this subject: “I did not know what to do with it. It was a bit unsettling”.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":32" />

=== Legal advisor of Wikileaks and Julian Assange (2015-2019) ===
Branco was passionate about the causes of other activists, such as the American ] ].<ref name=":0" /> For a while, he tried to join the team defending the man who revealed the ] by the ].<ref name=":0" />

However, he met Julian Assange in 2015, probably through "a close friend" of Assange's,<ref name=":0" /> and after collaborating with the organisation as a volunteer for a few months, he joined the defence team of ] and ] under the direction of ].<ref name=":02" /><ref name="dailymotion.com">{{Cite web |date=2016-03-27 |title=Juan Branco, l'homme dans l'ombre de Julien Assange - Le Supplément du 27/03 - CANAL+ - Vidéo Dailymotion |url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40adfd |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Dailymotion |language=en}}</ref> As a legal adviser, he then represented the organization publicly, notably during the ] in 2015, relating to the presidents of the French Republic as well as to its large companies.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Rubin |first1=Alissa J. |last2=Shane |first2=Scott |date=2015-06-24 |title=Hollande Condemns Spying by U.S., but Not Too Harshly |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/world/europe/wikileaks-us-spying-france.html |access-date=2023-05-05 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He participated in diplomatic negotiations to obtain the right of asylum for Assange, which the ] ultimately refused.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guiton |first=Amaelle |title=Hollande ne veut pas accueillir Assange |url=https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2015/07/03/hollande-ne-veut-pas-accueillir-assange_1342691/ |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":42">{{Citation |title=Retour sur nos enquêtes : FranceLeaks et Wikileaks |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUjGqixYKlU |access-date=2023-05-05 |language=en}}</ref>

Described by '']'' as "the man in the shadows" of Assange,<ref name="dailymotion.com" /><ref name=":172" /> responsible in particular for procedures with the ] and relations with certain States,<ref name=":42" /> he described on numerous occasions the risks inherent in working with WikiLeaks,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mediapart |first=Les invités de |title=L'inévitable radicalisation de WikiLeaks et les graves défaillances de notre société informationnelle |url=https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/article/020916/l-inevitable-radicalisation-de-wikileaks-et-les-graves-defaillances-de-notr |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Mediapart |language=fr}}</ref> particularly in contact with ], and defined the organization as a "World Library of Power Devices".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kilpeläinen |first=Minna |date=2017-08-08 |title=WikiLeaks is a Sieve |url=https://medium.com/@minnaliik/wikileaks-is-a-sieve-3beda99e557d |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>

Until Assange was arrested in April 2019 and placed in solitary confinement in London's ], Branco regularly visited him at the ], where he had taken refuge in 2012.<ref name=":0" /> He also helped set up a ] group, ''Assange, l'Ultime Combat'' (Assange, the Ultimate Fight), which organised bus trips between Paris and London in support of the Australian, and took part in two of them.<ref name=":0" />

In 2019, the French independent newspaper ] revealed that Branco had indeed been spied on by the ] during his visits to Julian Assange at the ] in ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hourdeaux |first=Jérôme |title=Les Etats-Unis ont espionné Julian Assange et ses visiteurs à Londres |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/211119/les-etats-unis-ont-espionne-julian-assange-et-ses-visiteurs-londres |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Mediapart |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Eschapasse |first=Baudouin |date=2020-03-09 |title=Ce que Juan Branco dit de Julian Assange |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/livres/ce-que-juan-branco-dit-de-julian-assange-09-03-2020-2366377_37.php |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Le Point |language=fr}}</ref>

=== Lawyer (since 2017) ===
==== First clients ====
Branco passed the bar in April 2017 and became a lawyer. He notably defended ] during the so-called "]" affair,<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 April 2018 |title=Menaces de l'ultra-droite : Mélenchon demande que Collomb soit entendu par la justice |url=https://www.europe1.fr/politique/menaces-de-lultra-droite-melenchon-demande-que-collomb-soit-entendu-par-la-justice-3617996 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=Europe 1 |language=fr}}</ref> a far-right terrorist group planning attacks on politicians and mosques ;<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2017 |title=Qui est Logan N., le cerveau présumé du projet d'attentat déjoué contre des politiques et des mosquées ? |url=https://www.europe1.fr/societe/qui-est-logan-n-le-cerveau-presume-du-projet-dattentat-dejoue-contre-des-politiques-et-des-mosquees-3468074 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=Europe 1 |language=fr}}</ref> as well as his father against ] and the ] in '']'' case, where he prevailed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2018 |title="L'Homme qui tua Don Quichotte" : la justice donne raison à Paulo Branco |url=https://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Cinema/L-Homme-qui-tua-Don-Quichotte-la-justice-donne-raison-a-Paulo-Branco-1540328 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=parismatch.com |language=fr}}</ref>

==== MINUSCA legal expert ====
In May 2018, he was recruited by the ] in the ] as an independent expert,<ref>{{Cite web |last=AfricaNews |date=2018-05-31 |title=Centrafrique : la Minusca expulse un expert français qui l'accuse de crimes |url=https://fr.africanews.com/2018/05/31/centrafrique-la-minusca-expulse-un-expert-francais-qui-l-accuse-de-crimes/ |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=Africanews |language=fr}}</ref> and was responsible with two others for developing the prosecution strategy of the Central African Special Criminal Court against ] in the country.<ref name="Endeweld">{{Cite web |last=Endeweld |first=Marc |date=2018-05-29 |title=Un expert indépendant expulsé de Centrafrique par l'ONU |url=https://www.marianne.net/monde/un-expert-independant-expulse-de-centrafrique-par-l-onu |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}</ref>

On 25 May, he publicly accused on Twitter, the ] (MINUSCA) forces of committing a massacre in ],<ref name="Endeweld" /> and said they could be investigated by the Criminal Court.<ref name=":2" /> Less than a week later, he was expelled from the country by the MINUSCA, which said his tweets "may adversely affect the interests of the United Nations” and were therefore in breach of his contract.<ref name=":2" /> According to some sources, the decision was taken at UN headquarters.<ref name="Endeweld" /> Branco denied that his actions ran contrary to the interests of the United Nations, writing that “denouncing crimes is a requirement for anyone, and in particular for those in charge of fighting them,”.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2018-05-31 |title=U.N. fires Central Africa legal adviser who accused peacekeepers of massacre |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrica-un-idUSKCN1IW265 |access-date=2023-05-07}}</ref>

==== Yellow vest protestors ====
During the ], he became the ] lawyer for protest figures, such as ], ] and Stéphane Espic.<ref name=":82">{{Cite web |date=2022-09-22 |title=" Gilets jaunes » : Didier Lallement visé par une seconde information judiciaire pour « détention arbitraire " |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/justice/20220922.OBS63510/gilets-jaunes-didier-lallement-vise-par-une-seconde-information-judiciaire-pour-detention-arbitraire.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=L'Obs |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":92">{{Cite web |date=2021-11-24 |title=L'avocat Juan Branco mis en examen pour viol et placé sous contrôle judiciaire |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/harcelement-sexuel/l-avocat-juan-branco-mis-en-examen-pour-viol-et-place-sous-controle-judiciaire_4857119.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=Franceinfo |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":102">{{Cite web |last=Leboucq |first=Fabien |title=Brigitte Macron a-t-elle perdu un procès en diffamation contre un gilet jaune ? |url=https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2020/10/04/brigitte-macron-a-t-elle-perdu-un-proces-en-diffamation-contre-un-gilet-jaune_1801326/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref>

In particular, he intervened when Maxime Nicolle was arrested in July 2019 and gave him legal advices regularly.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2020-02-29 |title=Des "gilets jaunes" à Piotr Pavlenski, en passant par l'intelligentsia parisienne... La galaxie éclectique de Juan Branco |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/russie/piotr-pavlenski/des-gilets-jaunes-a-piotr-pavlenski-en-passant-par-l-intelligentsia-parisienne-la-galaxie-eclectique-de-juan-branco_3835667.html |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Franceinfo |language=fr-FR}}</ref> He denounced an "arbitrary detention" and launched legal proceedings to find out who gave the order.<ref name=":82" />

He also defended the French professional boxer Christophe Dettinger, who was convicted of punching back two mobile gendarmes after clashes in ] as part of the Yellow Vest protests.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-07 |title=Manifestation des "gilets jaunes" samedi : le "boxeur" de la passerelle s'est rendu |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/manifestation-des-gilets-jaunes-samedi-le-boxeur-de-la-passerelle-s-est-rendu-6424224 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=France Inter |language=fr}}</ref> On 13 February 2019, Dettinger was sentenced to one year in prison and 18 months' probation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24 |date=2019-02-13 |title=Gilets jaunes : le boxeur de gendarmes Christophe Dettinger condamné à un an de prison ferme |url=https://www.france24.com/fr/20190213-france-justice-gilets-jaunes-boxeur-christophe-dettinger-condamnation-prison |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=France 24 |language=fr}}</ref> Branco tried to recover the money, €145 000, from a fundraising campaign set up to support the boxer, which was closed by the hosting website after less than 20 hours due to the outrage expressed by the authorities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pourquoi Christophe Dettinger, qui avait boxé des gendarmes, ne verra jamais la couleur de sa cagnotte |url=https://rmc.bfmtv.com/actualites/police-justice/pourquoi-christophe-dettinger-qui-avait-boxe-des-gendarmes-ne-verra-jamais-la-couleur-de-sa-cagnotte_AN-202101070559.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=RMC |language=fr}}</ref> In 2021, the fund was cancelled by the court, and he appelead.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-01-07 |title=Gilets jaunes : la justice s’oppose au versement de la cagnotte de Christophe Dettinger |language=fr-FR |work=La Croix |url=https://www.la-croix.com/France/Gilets-jaunes-justice-soppose-versement-cagnotte-Christophe-Dettinger-2021-01-07-1201133657 |access-date=2023-05-24 |issn=0242-6056}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=magazine |first=Le Point |date=2021-01-06 |title=La cagnotte Leetchi de l'ex-boxeur Gilet jaune Dettinger annulée par la justice |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/justice/la-cagnotte-leetchi-de-l-ex-boxeur-gilet-jaune-dettinger-annulee-par-la-justice-06-01-2021-2408537_2386.php |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Le Point |language=fr}}</ref>

==== Report accusing EU of crimes against humanity ====
In June 2019, he filed at the ], jointly with Omer Shatz, a 250-page communication on European migration policy, accusing the leaders of the ] of ] over the deaths of thousands of migrants who have perished in the ] while trying to flee ] between 2014 and 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-03 |title=Décès de migrants en Méditerranée: des avocats veulent traduire l'UE en justice |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/deces-de-migrants-en-mediterranee-des-avocats-veulent-traduire-l-ue-en-justice-20190603 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=LEFIGARO |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Oltermann |first1=Philip |last2=Giuffrida |first2=Angela |date=2022-11-30 |title=European politicians accused of conspiring with Libyan coastguard to push back refugees |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/european-politicians-accused-of-conspiring-with-libyan-coastguard-to-push-back-refugees |access-date=2023-05-19 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name=":172">{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco, der Anwalt für Assange, die Gelbwesten und Flüchtlinge |url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000104349831/juan-branco-der-anwalt-fuer-assange-fuer-die-gelbwesten-und |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=DER STANDARD |language=de-AT}}</ref> The report also claimed that the EU "orchestrated the interception and detention of 40,000 people" seeking to flee the country between 2016 and 2019. The document was based on the analysis of five years of statements, decisions and European reports.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-06-03 |title=Deux avocats accusent l'UE de crimes contre l'humanité envers les migrants de Libye |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/06/03/plainte-contre-l-union-europeenne-devant-la-cpi-pour-le-traitement-des-migrants-en-libye_5470685_3210.html |access-date=2023-05-10}}</ref> The ] reacted by indicating that “this accusation has no legal basis”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-03 |title=Migrants : deux avocats veulent que l'UE soit poursuivie pour crime contre l'humanité |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/monde/europe/migrants-deux-avocats-veulent-que-l-ue-soit-poursuivie-pour-crime-contre-l-humanite_2081944.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}</ref>

==== Marvel Fitness and Mila affair ====
In 2020, he became the lawyer for the appeal of Marvel Fitness, a Youtuber who was accused of harassing several fitness Youtubers, after he had been convicted in the first instance and remanded in custody, as well as one of the defendants in the ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Juan Branco, avocat de l'un des accusés dans l'affaire Mila: "Mon client a simplement exprimé son avis, il ne l'a pas tagé, ni fait de menaces" |url=https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/juan-branco-avocat-de-l-un-des-accuses-dans-l-affaire-mila-mon-client-a-simplement-exprime-son-avis-il-ne-l-a-pas-tage-ni-fait-de-menaces_VN-202106030412.html |access-date=2023-01-07 |language=fr}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Marvel Fitness was released and sentenced on appeal to eighteen months in prison, two of which were suspended. Branco described the trial as "a playground conflict that should not have been litigated".<ref>{{cite news |date=28 September 2021 |title=Cyberharcelement, le youtubeur Marvel Fitness condamné en appel |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2021/09/28/cyberharcelement-le-youtubeur-marvel-fitness-condamne-en-appel_6096324_4408996.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

==== La Liga ====
In june 2022, he became ]'s lawyer in France, after the organisation filed a complaint at ] against ] and ] for non-compliance with financial fair play rules.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 June 2022 |title=Football : la Liga engage l'avocat Juan Branco pour plaider sa cause contre le PSG |url=https://www.lejdd.fr/Sport/football-la-liga-engage-lavocat-juan-branco-pour-plaider-sa-cause-contre-le-psg-4117917 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=lejdd.fr |language=fr}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> He requested that ]'s contract be terminated.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-17 |title=Foot : avocat de la Liga, Juan Branco réclame l'abrogation du contrat de Mbappé |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/sports/football/espagne/foot-juan-branco-avocat-de-la-liga-veut-demander-l-abrogation-du-contrat-de-mbappe-20220617 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=LEFIGARO |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-07-22 |title=La Liga exige l’annulation du contrat de Kylian Mbappé avec le PSG |language=fr-CA |work=La Presse |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/sports/soccer/2022-07-22/la-liga-exige-l-annulation-du-contrat-de-kylian-mbappe-avec-le-psg.php |access-date=2023-05-21}}</ref>

==== '''Tayeb Benabderrahmane''' ====
In September 2022, he became one of the lawyers for Tayeb Benabderrahmane in the PSG spying affair, after he accused the ] authorities and PSG president ] of "]" and "]" for illegaly detaining him, forcing him to return confidential information on the attribution of the ] and sign a confidentiality clause.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-10-06 |title=Affaire d’espionnage au PSG : le lobbyiste Tayeb Benabderrahmane contre-attaque |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2022/10/06/affaire-d-espionnage-au-psg-le-lobbyiste-tayeb-benabderrahmane-contre-attaque_6144662_3224.html |access-date=2023-05-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-29 |title=Affaire d’espionnage au PSG : le lobbyiste mis en examen perd une manche devant l’ordre des avocats |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/justice/20221029.OBS65281/affaire-d-espionnage-au-psg-le-lobbyiste-mis-en-examen-perd-une-manche-devant-l-ordre-des-avocats.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=L'Obs |language=fr}}</ref> Branco claimed that his client was a victim at the centre of a "state scandal".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Affaire « explosive » au Qatar : « Un scandale d'État » selon les avocats de Tayeb Benabderrahmane |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Affaire-explosive-relative-a-nasser-al-khelaifi-un-scandale-d-etat-selon-les-avocats-de-tayeb-benabderrahmane/1357714 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=L'Équipe |language=fr}}</ref>

==== '''2016 Nice terrorist attack''' ====
In September 2022, he defended victims of the ]. He did not call for the terrorists to be condemned, but for the politicians responsible for security measures on that day to be prosecuted and investigated, in particular the ] of the department and mayor of ], ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-29 |title=La plaidoirie à la kalach de Juan Branco au procès de l’attentat du 14 juillet 2016 à Nice |url=https://www.nicematin.com/justice/la-plaidoirie-a-la-kalach-de-juan-branco-au-proces-de-l-attentat-du-14-juillet-2016-a-nice-811332 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Nice-Matin |language=fr}}</ref> He also demanded that the videotapes be made public.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-09-07 |title=Au procès de l’attentat du 14 juillet 2016 à Nice, la délicate question de la diffusion des images du massacre |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2022/09/07/au-proces-de-l-attentat-du-14-juillet-2016-a-nice-la-delicate-question-de-la-diffusion-des-images-du-massacre_6140472_1653578.html |access-date=2023-05-24}}</ref> However, Christian Estrosi denied responsibility, thus disappointing the victims.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-21 |title=Procès de l'attentat de Nice : Christian Estrosi ne reconnaît aucune responsabilité et déçoit les victimes |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/alpes-maritimes/nice/proces-de-l-attentat-de-nice-christian-estrosi-ne-reconnait-aucune-responsabilite-et-decoit-les-victimes-2639436.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

==== Damien Tarel ====
He also represented on appeal Damien Tarel, condemned for having slapped ], defending "a purgatory gesture which relieved many French people".<ref>{{cite web |date=2 November 2022 |title="Un geste purgatoire qui portait la parole de beaucoup de Français", le gifleur d'Emmanuel Macron voit sa peine confirmée en appel |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/drome/un-geste-purgatoire-qui-portait-la-parole-de-beaucoup-de-francais-le-gifleur-d-emmanuel-macron-voit-sa-peine-confirmee-en-appel-2647116.html |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |language=fr-FR}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> On 2 november 2022, Damien Tarel was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, four of which were suspended. He was also permanently banned from public employment, and deprived of his ] (including the right to vote) for a period of three years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-29 |title=L’auteur de la gifle à Emmanuel Macron conteste une partie de sa peine |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/justice/4003024-20220929-grenoble-auteur-gifle-emmanuel-macron-conteste-partie-peine |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=www.20minutes.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=à 18h05 |first=Par Le Parisien Le 2 novembre 2022 |last2=À 07h35 |first2=Modifié Le 3 Novembre 2022 |date=2022-11-02 |title=Emmanuel Macron giflé : la peine contre Damien Tarel confirmée en appel |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/emmanuel-macron-gifle-la-peine-contre-damien-tarel-confirmee-en-appel-02-11-2022-2A7SYYQH3FHARJSBTJZYGSAGMU.php |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

==== Ousmane Sonko ====
In 2023, he defended senegalese opposition leader ], who was accused of ] by the Senegalese Tourism Minister, after a statement about his management of public funds.<ref name=":182">{{Cite web |date=2023-03-31 |title=L'avocat Juan Branco expulsé du Sénégal en marge d'un procès politique |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/l-avocat-juan-branco-expulse-du-senegal-en-marge-d-un-proces-politique-20230331 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=LEFIGARO |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-23 |title=Pourquoi Ousmane Sonko a choisi l'avocat français Juan Branco – Jeune Afrique |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1429276/politique/pourquoi-ousmane-sonko-a-choisi-lavocat-francais-juan-branco/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=JeuneAfrique.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref> On 30 March, he was refused entry into the country by the police at ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-30 |title=Expulsion de Juan Branco du Sénégal : l'art et l'absence de manière ? – Jeune Afrique |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1432013/politique/expulsion-de-juan-branco-du-senegal-lart-et-labsence-de-maniere/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=JeuneAfrique.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=https://www.facebook.com/RFI |date=2023-03-31 |title=Juan Branco, avocat d'Ousmane Sonko, n'était pas le bienvenu au pays de la Teranga |url=https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20230331-juan-branco-avocat-d-ousmane-sonko-n-%C3%A9tait-pas-le-bienvenu-au-pays-de-la-teranga |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=RFI |language=fr}}</ref>


== Political activity == == Political activity ==
As a student, Branco stood for the ] in the 2008 local elections in Paris.<ref name="francetvinfo2">{{cite web |date=7 May 2019 |title=Des grandes écoles aux "gilets jaunes" en passant par WikiLeaks : qui est Juan Branco, l'avocat proche de Piotr Pavlenski? |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/des-grandes-ecoles-aux-gilets-jaunes-en-passant-par-wikileaks-qui-est-juan-branco-l-auteur-de-crepuscule-en-guerre-contre-macron_3421861.html |work=]}}</ref> The following year, he set up the student think-tank ], with the support of former right-wing Prime Minister ].<ref name="francetvinfo2" /><ref name="Match2" />
=== The Greens and Jeune République (2008-2009) ===
] founded by Juan Branco.]]
During his studies at Sciences Po, he became involved in school reform projects with the director ].<ref name=":62" /> Reputed close to ],<ref name="lefigaro.fr2" /> he joined the ], leading the ] section and mobilising in particular against ].<ref name=":52" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-21 |title=Non à la directive de la honte, la suite - Les Jeunes Verts Paris Île-de-France |url=http://jeunesverts.org/paris/index.php/post/2008/06/12/Non-a-la-directive-de-la-honte-la-suite |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821141340/http://jeunesverts.org/paris/index.php/post/2008/06/12/Non-a-la-directive-de-la-honte-la-suite |archive-date=2008-08-21 |access-date=2023-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-03-03 |title=JEUNES VERTS, (PETITS) CHASSEURS DE 4X4 |url=https://latelelibre.fr/reportages/jeunes-verts-petits-chasseurs-de-4x4/ |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=LaTeleLibre.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>


In 2012, Branco joined ]'s ] ], working in the "culture, audiovisual and media" team as the main collaborator of future ] ].<ref name="francetvinfo2" /><ref name=":02">{{Cite news |date=22 May 2012 |title=Hadopi fait une première victime à gauche |language=fr |work=] |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2012/05/22/hadopi-fait-une-premiere-victime-a-gauche_1705472_823448.html |access-date=}}</ref> He fell out with Filipetti when she did not appoint him as head of her office once she became minister;<ref name="francetvinfo2" /> according to Branco, he was a victim of the Socialist government's new doctrine on the ], an online anti-piracy law which he had opposed since 2009.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":322" />
] states : “After appearing on a Green list in the ]s, he created the Jeune République ] at the end of his second year, identified as close to Dominique de Villepin. "On the ideas, there was always a certain coherence, however, I was searching the way to defend them", he explains. "<ref name=":02" />


In the ], Branco stood for the left-wing populist party ] for ], where he came fourth with 13.94% of the vote.<ref name="francetvinfo2" />
=== Fight against Hadopi law (2009-2012) ===
In 2009, together with ],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rees |first=Marc |date=2009-06-30 |title=Création Public Internet : l'alternative à Hadopi contre 5 euros |url=https://www.nextinpact.com/archive/51715-assises-creation-public-internet-licence.htm |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=www.nextinpact.com |language=fr}}</ref> he fought against the ], a French bill enforcing copyright protection on the Internet,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-04 |title=Juan Branco une grosse production |url=http://revuecharles.fr/juan-branco-une-grosse-production/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204154109/http://revuecharles.fr/juan-branco-une-grosse-production/ |archive-date=2016-02-04 |access-date=2023-05-16}}</ref> by creating the platform ''Création, Public, Internet'' and by writing an ] against the project in April 2009, which was signed by personalities from the film industry, including his father, ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Akerman |first1=Chantal |last2=Honoré |first2=Christophe |last3=Morel |first3=Gael |last4=Limosin |first4=Jean-Pierre |last5=Modiano |first5=Zina |last6=Abril |first6=Victoria |last7=Deneuve |first7=Catherine |last8=Garrel |first8=Louis |last9=Gonzalez |first9=Yann |title=Lettre ouverte aux spectateurs citoyens |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/2009/04/07/lettre-ouverte-aux-spectateurs-citoyens_551338/ |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Un certain cinéma français contre la loi Création et Internet - Les Inrocks |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/un-certain-cinema-francais-contre-la-loi-creation-et-internet-119514-07-04-2009/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=https://www.lesinrocks.com/ |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":192">{{Cite news |date=2011-06-06 |title="Réponses à Hadopi", de Juan Branco : vive la licence globale ! |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/06/06/reponses-a-hadopi-de-juan-branco_1532488_3260.html |access-date=2023-05-19}}</ref> The signatories denounced the "liberticidal" nature of the Hadopi Law and called on politicians to think about "new methods of remuneration" and to "meet the expectations of the public".<ref name=":192" /> He became acquainted with ] during the fight against Hadopi.<ref name=":72">Durand 2016</ref>


He was an early supporter of ], appearing at the head of protest marches and being present when protesters forced the doors of ]'s ministry with a fork-lift truck.<ref name="francetvinfo2" /> He also defended members of the movement, including Maxime Nicolle, in court ].<ref name="francetvinfo2" /> He then called for abstention in the ].<ref name="francetvinfo2" />
His book ''Réponses à Hadopi'', published in 2011, proposed the development of a new legal and financial system for the film industry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dussueil |first=Jeanne |date=2013-01-04 |title=Polémique sur le salaire des acteurs : "Il faut réformer le système de financement du cinéma" |url=https://www.challenges.fr/media/polemique-sur-le-salaire-des-acteurs-il-faut-reformer-le-systeme-de-financement-du-cinema_8256 |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=Challenges |language=fr}}</ref>


=== Socialist Party (2012) === == Legal career ==
Branco was admitted to the ] in April 2017.<ref name="francetvinfo2" />
During the ], he became involved in the ] and worked several months in the cultural centre of ]'s campaign.<ref name="lexpress.fr22" /> As a member of the "Culture, Audiovisual and Media" pole - led by future French Minister of Culture and Communication ] - ,<ref name=":02" /> and presented by ] as her ],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Génération Y: portraits de digital natives (2/2) - Les Inrocks |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/generation-y-portraits-de-digital-natives-22-20188-24-02-2012/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=https://www.lesinrocks.com/ |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":122"/> Branco defended a reform of the French ], including the repeal of the ] and the decriminalisation of non-commercial ] cultural exchanges.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco, un anti-Hadopi auprès d'Aurélie Filippetti |url=https://www.lalettrea.fr/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=La Lettre A |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":112">{{Cite web |title=L'histoire secrète du programme culturel du candidat Hollande |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://perso.crans.org/raybaud/mediapart-20120607-programme_culture_candidat_hollande.pdf/index.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=]}}</ref>


Prior to being admitted to the bar, Branco had worked at the ] and at the ], an institution on which he wrote two books.<ref name=":322" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 June 2019 |title=ICC submission calls for prosecution of EU over migrant deaths |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/03/icc-submission-calls-for-prosecution-of-eu-over-migrant-deaths |work=]}}</ref> He also worked as a legal advisor to ] and ] between 2015 and 2019.<ref name="francetvinfo2" /> He unsuccessfully sought asylum in France for Assange.<ref>{{cite web |date=21 February 2020 |title=Les avocats de Julian Assange veulent demander l'asile politique pour le fondateur de WikiLeaks à Emmanuel Macron |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/affaire/assange/les-avocats-de-julian-assange-veulent-demander-l-asile-politique-pour-le-fondateur-de-wikileaks-a-emmanuel-macron_3835301.html |work=France Info}}</ref>
However, he was dismissed the day after the presidential election,<ref name=":122">{{Cite web |title=Hadopi : Juan Branco "inquiet" sur la volonté d'Aurélie Filippetti de changer les choses - Les Inrocks |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/hadopi-96515-24-05-2012/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=https://www.lesinrocks.com/ |language=fr-FR}}</ref> in favor of personnalities from the cultural industries who were more favorable to Hadopi like ] or ].<ref name=":202">{{Cite news |date=2012-05-22 |title=Hadopi fait une première victime à gauche |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2012/05/22/hadopi-fait-une-premiere-victime-a-gauche_1705472_823448.html |access-date=2023-05-17}}</ref><ref name=":132">{{Cite web |title=Voici Filippetti, et Valois le travail |url=https://www.liberation.fr/ecrans/2012/05/23/voici-filippetti-et-valois-le-travail_958193/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":112" /> '']'' stated, "Hadopi makes first victim on the left".<ref name=":202" /> According to Juan Branco, this was a result of a ] campaign from some of the cultural industries against his reform.<ref name=":122" /><ref name=":132" /> ]'s investigation confirmed an "accumulation of interests", in particular, Pierre Lescure's name had been suggested to François Hollande by ].<ref name=":112" /> Aurélie Filippetti, on the other hand, claimed that it was her refusal to accept Branco's request to become her chief of staff that led to his departure.<ref name=":02" />


In 2018 he represented his father ] in his legal dispute with ] over the film '']'', with the ] ruling in Branco's favour.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2018 |title=Paris appeals court rules in favour of Paulo Branco on 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' |url=https://www.screendaily.com/paris-appeals-court-rules-in-favour-of-paulo-branco-on-the-man-who-killed-don-quixote/5130200.article |work=]}}</ref>
=== Indignados movement and Partido X (2013-2014) ===
He was then involved in the Spanish ].<ref name=":72" /> During this period, he was edited by ], ] and ],<ref name=":72" /> and intervened alongside ],<ref name=":72" /> ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Réponses à Hadopi, suivi d'un entretien avec Jean-Luc Godard |url=https://www.academia.edu/signup?a_id=30870353 |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=www.academia.edu}}</ref> and ]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-11 |title=Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy {{!}} Speakers {{!}} Juan Branco |url=http://www.genevasummit.org/speaker/74/juan_branco |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211005621/http://www.genevasummit.org/speaker/74/juan_branco |archive-date=2015-12-11 |access-date=2023-05-16}}</ref> on issues of copyright, mass violence and surveillance in the digital era.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Symposium: Mass Surveillance — When Reality Exceeds The Fiction {{!}} La Quadrature du Net |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https://www.laquadrature.net/fr/node/8844 |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}</ref>


In May 2018, Branco was one of the lawyers appointed by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (]) to assist the country's newly-established special criminal court. After less than two weeks he was dismissed by the United Nations for having posted on ] an accusation that Rwandan ] had massacred thirty civilians in the capital.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 May 2018 |title=U.N. fires Central Africa legal adviser who accused peacekeepers of massacre |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrica-un/un-fires-central-africa-legal-adviser-who-accused-peacekeepers-of-massacre-idUSKCN1IW265 |work=]}}</ref>
He later joined the campaign team of ], arising from the Indignados movement, during the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=candidates xteam |url=https://partidox.org/candidates-xteam/ |access-date=2023-05-16 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Candidatos y Programa para las Elecciones Europeas – Partido X, Partido del Futuro |url=https://eleccioneseuropeas.partidox.org/candidatos-equipox/ |access-date=2023-05-16 |language=es-ES}}</ref>


In June 2019, together with Israeli lawyer Omer Shatz and Shatz's students from Sciences Po, Branco filed a 245-page submission to the International Criminal Court over the ] fleeing ]; they called for the prosecution of ] and ] over the ] after 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 June 2019 |title=ICC submission calls for prosecution of EU over migrant deaths |language=en-GB |work=] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/03/icc-submission-calls-for-prosecution-of-eu-over-migrant-deaths}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/socialistlawyer.85.0014|title=EU & Libya: Interview with Omer Shatz|date=February 2020|journal=]|doi=10.13169/socialistlawyer.85.0014 |last1=Thomas-Davis |first1=Maya |last2=Shatz |first2=Omer |issue=85 |pages=14–17 }}</ref>
=== Opposition to Emmanuel Macron (since 2013) ===
A fierce critic of ] long before his election, he invited the journalist ] to investigate him in 2013,<ref>{{Citation |title=Macron : les réseaux secrets ? Marc Endeweld |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvfXlbk-n9c |access-date=2023-05-17 |language=en}}</ref> claiming that the conditions of his accession to power would determine the exercise of his power.<ref name=":62" /> From 2016, he described the possible election of the ] candidate as a precursor to the election of ], and defended the blank ballot between the two rounds of the ].<ref>{{Citation |title=Macron contre Le Pen - Pourquoi Juan Branco a invité à voter blanc |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKdNi3b35q4 |access-date=2023-05-17 |language=en}}</ref>


In 2021, Branco represented one of the ] in the ], a teenager who was bullied online after she had insulted ].<ref>{{cite web |date=7 July 2021 |title=France: 11 convicted of cyberbullying teen who slammed Islam |url=https://apnews.com/article/europe-france-religion-islam-technology-37d079cbf54c3b9880305f2fb2365a11 |work=]}}</ref>
=== La France Insoumise (2017-2018) ===
Branco then ran in the ]s in ] under the label of ], whose leader ] was convinced by his support for Julian Assange.<ref name="lefigaro.fr2" /><ref name=":62" /> Branco came fourth and was eliminated in the first round, with 13.9% of the votes cast and 5.5% of those registered. Ahead of him were ] (], 15.1%), Ludovic Toro (], 19.7%) and ] (], 33.8%), who was elected in the second round.<ref>{{Cite web |last=l'Intérieur |first=Ministère de |title=Résultats des élections législatives 2017 |url=http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives-2017 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Legislatives/elecresult__legislatives-2017 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Résultats des élections législatives 2022 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/data/12eme-circonscription-de-seine-saint-denis-09312/elections/legislatives-2017/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Le Monde.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>


Branco represented a French fan club of ] in an unsuccessful attempt to block ] move to ] from a ] standpoint in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 July 2023 |title=Court upholds Lionel Messi's move to PSG |url=https://www.marca.com/en/football/ligue-1/2023/07/19/64b7ffd6268e3e46158b45ea.html |work=]}}</ref> He then became ]'s lawyer in 2022 when the league mounted a similar challenge to ]'s new contract with Paris Saint-Germain.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-06-17 |title=La Liga ramps up attack on PSG with Mbappe contract challenge |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/la-liga-ramps-up-attack-on-psg-with-mbappe-contract-challenge |access-date= |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
=== Yellow Vests movement (since 2018) ===
He supported the ] from the start and called for the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron.<ref name=":02" /><ref name="lexpress.fr22" />


== Griveaux affair ==
He became the ] lawyer for protest figures, such as ], ] and Stéphane Espic,<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":82" /><ref name=":92" /><ref name=":102" /> and also a friend of Maxime Nicolle, for whose autobiography ''Fly Rider, gilet jaune'' he wrote the preface, and of whom he said, "He is more intelligent than I am : I have learnt a lot from him, whether it is about French society, what he thinks of the current institutions, his experience of life in the army...".<ref name=":0" />
Branco was the legal advisor of Russian performance artist ] who, in February 2020, disseminated an explicit video that led to the resignation of ] and ] candidate ]. Branco voiced his support for Pavlensky's actions in a way that caused speculation that he himself had played a role in the affair.<ref>{{cite web |date=14 February 2020 |title=Vidéos intimes de Griveaux : le rôle trouble de Juan Branco |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/videos-intimes-de-griveaux-le-role-trouble-de-juan-branco-14-02-2020-2362721_20.php |work=]}}</ref> Rejecting the advice of the French Bar Association to resign due to his proximity to the events in question, Branco continued as part of the defence team of Pavlensky when the latter was arrested on charges of invasion of privacy and publishing sexually explicit images without consent.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 February 2020 |title=Le bâtonnier de Paris a demandé à Branco de ne pas défendre Pavlenski |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/justice/affaire-griveaux-le-batonnier-de-paris-demande-a-branco-de-ne-pas-defendre-pavlenski-19-02-2020-2363332_2386.php |work=Le Point}}</ref> Branco requested a psychiatric examination of the victim, which was characterised by Griveaux's lawyer as "grotesque and hateful", and refused by the court.<ref>{{cite web |date=11 March 2020 |title=Griveaux : la justice refuse l'expertise psychiatrique demandée par Branco |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/justice/griveaux-la-justice-refuse-l-expertise-psychiatrique-demandee-par-branco-11-03-2020-2366834_2386.php#xtmc=branco&xtnp=1&xtcr=4 |work=Le Point}}</ref>


In September 2021, Branco received a reprimand from the Paris Bar Association for having sent a link to the offending video.<ref name=":22">{{cite web |date=9 June 2023 |title=Affaire Griveaux: la cour d'appel de Paris annule un blâme infligé à l'avocat Juan Branco |url=https://www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers-justice/2023/06/09/la-cour-d-appel-de-paris-annule-un-blame-inflige-a-l-avocat-juan-branco |work=]}}</ref> In September 2022, investigating magistrates said that no charges would be brought against Branco although they believed that he had probably played a part in the dissemination of the explicit videos.<ref>{{cite web |date=6 September 2022 |title=Affaire Griveaux : Juan Branco échappe à la justice… mais pas Piotr Pavlenski ni sa compagne |url=https://www.marianne.net/societe/police-et-justice/affaire-griveaux-juan-branco-echappe-a-la-justicemais-pas-piotr-pavlenski-ni-sa-compagne |work=]}}</ref> In June 2023, the reprimand from the Paris Bar Association was overturned in the ].<ref name=":22" />
He demonstrated several times alongside the yellow vests.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":0" /> He was present on 5 January 2019 when a forklift truck forced its way into the office of the government spokesman, ].<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":0" /> In February 2019, in an interview with ], he said of Macron's movement : "They are not corrupt, they are corruption".<ref name=":142">{{Cite web |date=2020-02-19 |title=PORTRAIT. Qui est Juan Branco, avocat radical et polémique ? |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/politique/benjamin-griveaux/portrait-juan-branco-un-avocat-radical-et-polemique-figure-de-l-affaire-griveaux-6744454 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Ouest-France.fr |language=fr}}</ref>


== Sonko affair ==
Back in July 2017, in an interview with ] and in a first passage for ], he had indeed anticipated a major political rupture as well as an increase in ] in the country, due to an "authoritarian temptation" arising from the conditions of Emmanuel Macron's accession to power.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-18 |title=Macron ou la tentation autoritaire {{!}} Entretiens |url=https://la-bas.org/la-bas-magazine/entretiens/Macron-ou-la-tentation-autoritaire |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Là-bas si j'y suis |language=fr}}</ref>
In March 2023, Branco was invited to join the defence team of ]ese opposition leader ], who was facing charges of ] after he had accused the tourism minister of mismanaging public funds. Ten days later, he was refused entry to the country after the authorities discovered he had referred to president ] as a "tyrant" in social media posts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 March 2023 |title=L'avocat Juan Branco expulsé du Sénégal en marge d'un procès politique |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/l-avocat-juan-branco-expulse-du-senegal-en-marge-d-un-proces-politique-20230331 |work=Le Figaro}}</ref>


In June 2023, in the wake of ], Branco accused the ] of ], filing a complaint in France and calling for an investigation by the ]; in July the ] responded by filing a complaint against Branco for having identified French agents in Senegal, accusing him of putting their lives in danger;<ref>{{cite web |date=12 July 2023 |title=Le ministère des Affaires étrangères porte plainte contre Juan Branco |url=https://www.europe1.fr/politique/info-europe-1-le-ministere-des-affaires-etrangeres-porte-plainte-contre-juan-branco-4193848 |work=Europe 1}}</ref> the Prosecutor's Office decided not to pursue the matter.<ref>{{cite web |date=2 August 2023 |title=Divulgation de l'identité d'agents français : le signalement du Quai d'Orsay contre Juan Branco classé sans suite |url=https://www.marianne.net/monde/afrique/divulgation-de-lidentite-dagents-francais-le-signalement-du-quai-dorsay-contre-juan-branco-classe-sans-suite |work=Marianne}}</ref>
During the ], Branco called for ], which earned him the disapproval of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.<ref name=":02" />


Senegal meanwhile issued an ] against Branco, which did not prevent him entering the country illegally to attend a press conference of Sonko's legal team on 30 July 2023.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 August 2023 |title=Senegalese opposition leader's lawyer actively sought after surprise appearance |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2023/08/01/senegalese-opposition-leader-s-lawyer-actively-sought-after-surprise-appearance_6074756_124.html |work=]}}</ref> On 4 August, he was arrested on the border with ]. Transferred to Rebeuss prison in ], he appeared before a judge on 6 August and was charged with conspiracy, spreading fake news and endangering public safety.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 August 2023 |title=French lawyer for Senegalese opposition leader jailed in Dakar |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20230806-juan-branco-arrested-senegal-lawyer-ousmane-sonko |work=]}}</ref> The following day he was ] with a deportation order and arrived back in Paris on 8 August.<ref>{{cite web |date=8 August 2023 |title=Sénégal : pourquoi Juan Branco a été arrêté pour "complot" et expulsé |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/senegal-pourquoi-juan-branco-a-ete-arrete-pour-complot-a-dakar-20230807 |work=Le Figaro}}</ref> At a press conference on the same day, he urged Senegal's government to release all political prisoners.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 August 2023 |title=Juan Branco urges Senegal's government to release political prisoners |url=https://www.africanews.com/2023/08/10/juan-branco-urges-senegals-government-to-release-political-prisoners/ |work=]}}</ref> On 18 August, he was received at the ], together with Said Larifou, to draw the UN's attention to Sonko's situation.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-08-18 |title=Les avocats de l'opposant sénégalais Ousmane Sonko internationalisent leur combat |url=https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20230818-les-avocats-de-l-opposant-s%C3%A9n%C3%A9galais-ousmane-sonko-internationalisent-leur-combat |access-date= |website=] |language=fr}}</ref>
== Writing activity ==
=== ''Réponses à Hadopi'' ===
In 2011, Branco published ''Réponses à Hadopi'', a ] that imagines the development of a new legal and financial system for the film industry, and examines the concrete impact of the "global licence" on the cinema economy.<ref name=":192" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco "Ce qui me fait rire ? Bernard-Henri Lévy en Libye Et partout ailleurs" |url=https://www.liberation.fr/cinema/2011/11/30/juan-branco-ce-qui-me-fait-rire-bernard-henri-levy-en-libye-et-partout-ailleurs_778280/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-05-25 |title=Juan Branco: "Hadopi a créé une ligne de fracture très forte qui empêche tout dialogue" |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/culture/730414-20110525-juan-branco-hadopi-cree-ligne-fracture-tres-forte-empeche-tout-dialogue |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=www.20minutes.fr |language=fr}}</ref>


== Questions of integrity ==
He imagined that in the following election, almost all the political parties had included the "global licence" in their presidential election manifestos: that is, freedom of downloading, accompanied by a mechanism to compensate artists and their ], instead of penalising Internet users who ] works.<ref name=":192" />


While at school, Branco set up a ] in which fellow pupils were subjected to sexist and homophobic insults. One of those who had been bullied on the blog was future ] and ] ], who spoke about the experience on TV in November 2023. Branco, who was not named in the interview, responded with a claim that it was Attal who was a bully. Branco had also attacked Attal in his book ''Crépuscule''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/que-sait-on-des-accusations-de-harcelement-homophobe-portees-par-gabriel-attal-contre-juan-branco-20231110_XATWC5CQAZCKJNKL4O5L5WQAU4/|title=CheckNews: Que sait-on des accusations de harcèlement homophobe portées par Gabriel Attal contre Juan Branco?|date=10 November 2023|work=Libération}}</ref>
Branco then imagined that the average ] and telephone subscription would be raised from 30 euros to 35 euros. In return, ] customers would have unlimited access to cultural content. The difference of 5 euros would be a nice sum, at least 1.2 billion euros, thanks to the 20 million households that would be connected in 2011. This money would go to artists' ]s on a basis proportional to the number of downloads, plus a redistribution to promote cultural diversity. 400 million of this total of 1.2 billion euros would go to the cinema, according to the economic model proposed by ], founder of ].<ref name=":192" />


In October 2016 Branco offered his services as a lawyer to the terrorist ] in a letter which was revealed by '']'' in February 2020.<ref name=":1" /> As he was not yet admitted to the bar and therefore not legally permitted to practice law, a number of lawyers characterised Branco's actions as illegal. Branco explained that in October 2016 he had already qualified as a lawyer and could have been admitted to the bar at any time.<ref>{{cite web |date=25 February 2020 |title="C'est un exercice illégal" : quand il sollicite le terroriste Abdeslam, Juan Branco... n'est pas encore avocat |url=https://www.marianne.net/societe/c-est-un-exercice-illegal-quand-il-sollicite-le-terroriste-abdeslam-juan-branco-n-est-pas |work=]}}</ref> Abdeslam did not reply to the letter.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=22 February 2020 |title=Exclusif: Quand Juan Branco écrivait à Salah Abdeslam |url=https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/exclusif-quand-juan-branco-ecrivait-a-salah-abdeslam |work=]}}</ref>
He concluded: "The global licence is in fact the last hope of a cultural exception that is becoming increasingly fragile". This plea is followed by an interview with ], for whom "the author's only right is his duty to create".<ref name=":192" />


Branco has used multiple identities (]) since 2005 to embellish his own biography on Misplaced Pages and to settle accounts with others.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 February 2020 |title=Sur Wikipédia, les vies rêvées de Juan Branco |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/sur-wikipedia-les-vies-revees-de-juan-branco-20200221 |work=Le Figaro}}</ref> According to an article in '']'', he sent an email in 2014 to the employer of another Misplaced Pages editor, in which he pretended to be a Misplaced Pages administrator and threatened them with legal action.<ref>{{cite web |date=14 February 2020 |title=Juan Branco, l'avocat qui veut la peau de la Macronie et conseille le tombeur de Griveaux |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/politique/juan-branco-le-radical-chic-qui-veut-la-peau-de-la-macronie_2061348.html |url-access=subscription |work=]}}</ref> Branco responded to the article with a denial, saying he had never attacked anyone on Misplaced Pages.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-29 |title=Droit de réponse de Juan Branco |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/politique/droit-de-reponse-de-juan-branco_2074683.html |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}</ref>
=== ''Crépuscule'' ===
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In December 2018, he published '']'' on his blog hosted by ], a long document which criticized the rise of Emmanuel Macron and his links to the wealthy ]s of the French press, a vitriolic attack on a section of the Parisian ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Microsoft Word - Macron et son crepuscule 29 décembre.docx |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbranco.blog.lemonde.fr%2Ffiles%2F2019%2F01%2FMacron-et-son-Crepuscule.pdf%2Findex.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}</ref> and a call for popular revolt. He described Macron's movement as "a new form of fascism".<ref name=":142" /><ref name=":212">{{cite web |date=2019-04-26 |title=" Crépuscule " de Juan Branco, ce qu'il faut garder et ce qu'il faut jeter |url=http://www.slate.fr/story/176217/livre-crepuscule-juan-branco-fact-checking-pouvoir-emmanuel-macron-politique-medias |access-date=2019-04-26 |website=]}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref> He already reported a major democratic aporia in ''Contre Macron'', a first philosophical text published online in July 2017 and published by Divergences in January 2019.


In April 2021, a 20-year-old woman accused Branco of raping her after having given her the drug lamaline.{{efn|A medication containing ], ] and ].}} Branco said the sex was consensual.<ref>{{cite web |date=2 May 2021 |title="J'avais peur qu'il devienne violent" : le récit glaçant de la jeune femme qui accuse Juan Branco de viol |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/05/02/enquete-pour-viol-contre-lavocat-juan-branco-son-accusatrice-revient-sur-les-faits-9521758.php |work=]}}</ref>
Shortly after the publication of his text, he was reported to the public prosecutor's office by the French deputy ] for "arming people's minds to legitimise violence in the country".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-09 |title=Aurore Bergé a signalé à la justice les propos incitant à la violence de deux cadres LFI |url=https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Politique/Aurore-Berge-a-signale-a-la-justice-les-propos-incitant-a-la-violence-de-deux-cadres-LFI-1598580 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=parismatch.com |language=fr}}</ref> He denied any fault and claimed responsibility for his writings,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-18 |title=Attaqués par Bergé, Guénolé et Branco se défendent |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2019/01/18/97001-20190118FILWWW00303-attaques-par-berge-guenole-et-branco-se-defendent.php |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=LEFIGARO |language=fr}}</ref> and was defended by ],<ref name="lexpress.fr22" /> by ], who introduced the written version of his text, or even by ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-20 |title=Dons à Notre-Dame : "Et qu'en est-il des sans-abri ?", s'interroge Pamela Anderson |url=https://www.europe1.fr/people/dons-a-notre-dame-et-quen-est-il-des-sans-abris-demande-pamela-anderson-3894044 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Europe 1 |language=fr}}</ref>


== Writing ==
After being downloaded around 100,000 times, ''Crépuscule'' was published by ] in March 2019 and sold 250,000 copies.<ref name=":182" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=2020-02-17 |title=Derrière la chute de Benjamin Griveaux, enquête sur le rôle d'un trio sans foi ni loi |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2020/02/17/derriere-la-chute-de-benjamin-griveaux-un-trio-sans-foi-ni-loi_6029811_823448.html |access-date=2023-05-17}}</ref><ref name=":152">{{Cite web |title="Crépuscule", de Juan Branco, est-il en tête des ventes de livres sans avoir été médiatisé ? |url=https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/04/03/crepuscule-de-juan-branco-est-il-en-tete-des-ventes-de-livres-sans-avoir-ete-mediatise_1718700/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref> Abroad, it has been covered by the media, particularly in ],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-15 |title=Juan Branco nos presenta su "Crespúsculo" |url=https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/cinco-continentes/juan-branco-presenta-su-crepusculo/5146747/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=RTVE.es |language=es}}</ref> ]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boileau |first=Clément |date=2023-05-17 |title=Que vaut "Crépuscule", le brûlot de Juan Branco qui crispe la presse française ? |url=https://www.lalibre.be/culture/livres-bd/2019/04/15/que-vaut-crepuscule-le-brulot-de-juan-branco-qui-crispe-la-presse-francaise-JUEGB3WAXRG47F5LMFTXETHR5A/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=La Libre.be |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":162">{{Cite web |last=Boileau |first=Clément |date=2023-05-17 |title="Complotiste", "fasciste"... Qui est Juan Branco, conseiller juridique de Wikileaks qui s'est mis à dos la presse française ? |url=https://www.lalibre.be/international/2019/04/19/complotiste-fasciste-qui-est-juan-branco-conseiller-juridique-de-wikileaks-qui-sest-mis-a-dos-la-presse-francaise-FABMJHM4QZDPLL2P5EPYGLJBUQ/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=La Libre.be |language=fr}}</ref> and ],<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 April 2019 |title=Qui a peur du "révolutionnaire" Juan Branco? |newspaper=Le Temps |url=https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/peur-revolutionnaire-juan-branco}}</ref> but not in France, despite having been on several literary ].<ref name=":152" /> Belgian newspaper '']'' wondered : "Who is Juan Branco, the Wikileaks legal adviser who has alienated the French press?"<ref name=":162" /> It wasn't until the end of April 2019 that some French media reviewed the book, mostly negatively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crépuscule: Juan Branco découvre la lune |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/250419/crepuscule-juan-branco-decouvre-la-lune?onglet=full}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2019 |title="Peuplecratie" d'Ilvo Diamanti et Marc Lazar / "Crépuscule" de Juan Branco |url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/avis-critique/avis-critique-emission-du-samedi-11-mai-2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 April 2019 |title="Crépuscule» de Juan Branco, ce qu'il faut garder et ce qu'il faut jeter" |url=http://www.slate.fr/story/176217/livre-crepuscule-juan-branco-fact-checking-pouvoir-emmanuel-macron-politique-medias}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=6 June 2019 |title="Crépuscule" de Juan Branco : Fausse enquête-révélations sur Macron et vrai gâchis |url=https://www.marianne.net/culture/crepuscule-juan-branco-livre-critique}}</ref><ref name=":222">{{Cite web |date=25 April 2019 |title=Critique des médias, attaques sur Macron... On a lu "Crépuscule", le livre "censuré" de Juan Branco |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/critique-des-medias-attaques-sur-macron-on-a-lu-crepuscule-le-livre-censure-de-juan-branco_3403909.html}}</ref>
Branco has written the following:


* ''Réponses à Hadopi'' (Paris, Capricci, 2011, {{ISBN|978-2918040255}})
It is the first volume of a ], followed by ''Abattre l'ennemi'' in 2021 and ''Coup d'état'' in 2023.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco, l’insurrection qui tarde à venir |url=https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/juan-branco-linsurrection-qui-tarde-a-venir-20230412_ZWRJ6JAS3VH3POYPU36DILAXWA/ |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref>
* ''De l'affaire Katanga au contrat social global: Un regard sur la Cour pénale internationale'' (thesis) (Paris, 2015, LGDJ-IUV, 2015, {{ISBN|978-2370320582}})
* ''L'ordre et le monde'', edited by ] and ] (Paris, Fayard, 2016, {{ISBN|978-2213680880}})
* ''D'après une image de Daesh'' (Paris, Lignes, 2017, {{ISBN|978-2-35526-164-0}})
* ''Crépuscule'' (Paris, Au diable vauvert, 2019, {{ISBN|979-1030702606}})
* ''Contre Macron'' (Paris, Éditions Divergence, 2019, {{ISBN|979-1097088125}})
* ''Assange, l'antisouverain'' (Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2020, {{ISBN|978-2204133074}})
* ''La République ne vous appartient pas : Discours à polytechnique'', (Paris, Au diable vauvert, 2020, {{ISBN|979-10-307-0379-5}})
* ''Abattre l'ennemi'' (Paris,Éditions Michel Lafon, 2021, {{ISBN|978-2-7499-4697-9}})
* ''Treize pillards'' (Paris, Au diable vauvert, 2022, {{ISBN|979-10-307-0507-2}})
* ''Luttes'' (Paris, Michel Lafon, 2022, {{ISBN|978-2-7499-4955-0}})
* ''Coup d'État: Manuel insurrectionnel'' (Paris, Au diable vauvert, 2023, {{ISBN|979-10-307-0625-3}})
* ''Hanouna'' (Paris, Au diable vauvert, 2023, {{ISBN|979-10-307-0629-1}})


''Crépuscule'', Branco's most successful work, sold more than 150,000 copies within a year of its publication<ref>{{cite web |date=17 February 2020 |title=Derrière la chute de Benjamin Griveaux, enquête sur le rôle d'un trio sans foi ni loi |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2020/02/17/derriere-la-chute-de-benjamin-griveaux-un-trio-sans-foi-ni-loi_6029811_823448.html |work=Le Monde}}</ref> and was downloaded around a million times.<ref name=":0" /> The book is a critique of Macron's presidency and challenges his legitimacy as a president whose ] depended, in the opinion of the author, on the support of ] and ]s.<ref name=Slate>{{Cite web |date=26 April 2019 |title=Crépuscule» de Juan Branco, ce qu'il faut garder et ce qu'il faut jeter |url=http://www.slate.fr/story/176217/livre-crepuscule-juan-branco-fact-checking-pouvoir-emmanuel-macron-politique-medias |work=]}}</ref> Reviewed in the French edition of the magazine '']'', the book was praised for its exploration of the networks of power in France, and criticised for its reliance on unsubstantiated claims.<ref name=Slate/> It originally appeared online in December 2018; an expanded version, edited by journalist and writer ], was then published in print in March 2019.<ref name="Figaro12">{{cite web |date=9 April 2019 |title=Crépuscule: succès fulgurant pour le livre de l'avocat Juan Branco |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/crepuscule-succes-fulgurant-pour-le-livre-de-l-avocat-juan-branco-20190409 |work=]}}</ref> ] magazine suggested that ''Crépuscule'' was "likely to be the work that defines this period".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-08-19 |title=The real victims of France's 'yellow vest' revolution |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/les-gilets-jaunes |access-date= |website=] |language=en-GB}}</ref>
=== ''Assange, L'anti-souverain'' ===
In January 2020, he published ''Assange, L'anti-souverain,'' a 489-page biography of ] founder ],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikileaks : une biographie de Julian Assange, par son avocat Juan Branco |url=https://actualitte.com/article/11687/reseaux-sociaux/wikileaks-une-biographie-de-julian-assange-par-son-avocat-juan-branco |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=JBG |date=2020-02-07 |title=Juan Branco : "Julian Assange n'est pas dans la compromission avec la ... |url=https://www.sudradio.fr/societe/juan-branco-julian-assange-nest-pas-dans-la-compromission-avec-la-verite |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Sud Radio |language=fr-FR}}</ref> which also adresses the growing public distrust of the traditional media.<ref name=":1" /> Branco argues that Assange is a "]" in that he has invented a new "desintermediated" relationship with information based on an immediately accessible source document.<ref name=":1" />


In 2020 he published a biography of Assange called ''Assange, l'antisouverain''. '']'' referred to the book as a literary ], more about the author than the subject.<ref name=":12">{{cite web |date=9 March 2020 |title=Ce que Juan Branco dit de Julian Assange |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/livres/ce-que-juan-branco-dit-de-julian-assange-09-03-2020-2366377_37.php |work=Le Point}}</ref>
Branco then contrasts the figures of the two ], Julian Assange and ]. The former, who came from the underground, seems to have favour in his eyes. The latter, who worked for the ] for ten years, remains for him, subservient to the "system".<ref name=":1" />


== Bibliography ==
=== ''The Republic does not belong to you'' ===
On 9 December 2019, Branco was invited to give a speech in the honour amphitheatre of the French ].<ref name=":0" /> He told the students of France's most prestigious engineering school, "The Republic does not belong to you".<ref name=":3" /> The speech was organised by ''Les Tribunes de l'X'', a Polytechnique student society.<ref name=":0" /> It was then transcribed into an ] entitled ''La République ne vous appartient pas'' (The Republic does not belong to you) which was published on 7 May 2020.<ref name=":1" />


* Mariel Primois, ''Signé Branco'', Paris, Au diable Vauvert, 2019.
=== ''Abattre l'ennemi'' ===
* Franck Cormerais, Amar Lakel, ''Juan Branco, influenceur éphémère ou figure d’un nouvel « intellectuel numérique » ?'' in Quaderni 2023/2 (n°109), 39-58.
In March 2021, he published ''Abattre l'ennemi'' (Defeat the enemy), a political manifesto proposing solutions and a detailed governance project.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-05UTC11:59:35+0200 |title="Abattre l'ennemi" : le nouvel Évangile selon Juan Branco |url=https://www.marianne.net/culture/litterature/abattre-lennemi-le-nouvel-evangile-selon-juan-branco |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco : “Il y a encore la possibilité d’une guerre civile dans ce pays” |url=https://actualitte.com/article/99615/interviews/juan-branco-il-y-a-encore-la-possibilite-d-une-guerre-civile-dans-ce-pays |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref> It calls for a major paradigm shift by proposing a revolutionary programme, including the creation of ], but also a change of the country's leaders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abattre l'ennemi, le nouveau manifeste politique de Juan Branco |url=https://actualitte.com/article/99463/avant-parutions/abattre-l-ennemi-le-nouveau-manifeste-politique-de-juan-branco |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref> It is the second volume of a ] begun with ''Crépuscule.''<ref name=":4" />


==Notes==
=== ''Coup d'état'' ===
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In March 2023, he concluded the trilogy he began with ''Crépuscule'' and ''Abattre l'ennemi'' by publishing ''Coup d'état,'' a manual for insurgents that aims to provide the tools to lead a revolution,<ref>{{Cite web |last=JBG |date=2023-04-04 |title=Juan Branco : "on ne croit plus en la parole du politique" - |url=https://www.sudradio.fr/sud-radio/juan-branco-on-ne-croit-plus-en-la-parole-du-politique |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Sud Radio |language=fr-FR}}</ref> and calls for the seizure of power by force.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Causeur.fr |date=2023-03-28 |title=Juan Branco: le chaos très au point |url=https://www.causeur.fr/juan-branco-coup-d-etat-257428 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Causeur |language=fr-FR}}</ref> It examines the scenarios of ], ] and ], with the possibilities of success or failure, the advantages and disadvantages of each option.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco : “Je n’y survivrai pas. Vous et moi le savons” |url=https://actualitte.com/article/110974/interviews/juan-branco-je-n-y-survivrai-pas-vous-et-moi-le-savons |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref> The first two parts are devoted to analysing the nature, constraints and conditions of the exercise of power.<ref name=":5" />

=== ''Hanouna'' ===
In May 2023, he announced the publication of his forthcoming book ''Hanouna'', which promises to tackle the French ] and in particular ] host ]: "What is Hanouna ? Nothing. Nada. Keutchi. A pawn in a system that would be useless to overthrow on its own, ".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-17 |title=" Qu'est-ce que Cyril Hanouna ? Rien. Nada. Keutchi. " : le livre choc de Juan Branco très attendu |url=https://www.charentelibre.fr/societe/medias/television/qu-est-ce-que-cyril-hanouna-rien-nada-keutchi-le-livre-choc-de-juan-branco-tres-attendu-15195294.php |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=CharenteLibre.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-16 |title=Ce livre de Juan Branco sur Cyril Hanouna s'annonce piquant |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/culture/article/juan-branco-publie-un-livre-sur-cyril-hanouna-et-ca-s-annonce-piquant_217916.html |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=Le HuffPost |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-19 |title=Cyril Hanouna ciblé dans le prochain livre de l'avocat Juan Branco |url=https://programmetv.ouest-france.fr/personnalites/cyril-hanouna/cyril-hanouna-cible-dans-le-prochain-livre-de-lavocat-juan-branco-e8b863e0-f639-11ed-81c3-16bd97291488 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=programmetv.ouest-france.fr |language=fr}}</ref> ''Hanouna'' will be published on June 1, but the book is already a bestseller in online bookstores.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Hanouna" : Juan Branco annonce la publication d'un livre sur l'animateur de TPMP et se place déjà en tête des ventes |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/05/16/hanouna-juan-branco-annonce-la-publication-dun-livre-sur-lanimateur-de-tpmp-et-se-place-deja-en-tete-des-ventes-11199636.php |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=ladepeche.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=à 16h48 |first=Par Le Parisien Le 18 mai 2023 |date=2023-05-18 |title=" Qu'est-ce que Cyril Hanouna ? Rien " : l'animateur de C8 ciblé dans le prochain livre de Juan Branco |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/livres/cyril-hanouna-cible-par-juan-branco-dans-un-livre-a-charge-deja-en-tete-des-preventes-18-05-2023-AS6GAVQFG5AUFP4RK6E36YO5IY.php |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

== Journalistic activity ==
Between 2008 and 2019, Branco has written columns for ],<ref name=":232">{{Cite web |last=Branco |first=Juan |date=2016-11-01 |title=Les étranges affaires d'Areva en Afrique |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/11/BRANCO/56798 |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Branco |first=Juan |date=2018-09-01 |title=Centrafrique, la déroute des Nations unies |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2018/09/BRANCO/59011 |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/auteurs/juan-branco |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=fr}}</ref> '']'',<ref>{{cite web |date=12 February 2019 |title=La vérité absente du procès Colonna |url=https://www.humanite.fr/node/500 |website=]}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref> ''],''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Branco |first=Juan |title=La démocratie espagnole contre le juge Garzón |url=https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2010/05/18/la-democratie-espagnole-contre-le-juge-garzon_626684/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Branco |first1=Juan |last2=Clarou |first2=Alphonse |title=Godard et la société du FN |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/2014/06/22/godard-et-la-societe-du-fn_1047718/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="libehollande2">{{cite web |date=2013-08-04 |title=Hollande ou la parole présidentielle fragmentée |url=http://www.liberation.fr/france/2013/08/04/hollande-ou-la-parole-presidentielle-fragmentee_922757 |website=]}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>'', ],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Branco |first=Juan |date=2015 |title=Le spectre d'Assange |url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-esprit-2015-1-page-82.htm |journal=Esprit |language=fr |volume=Janvir |issue=1 |pages=82 |doi=10.3917/espri.1501.0082 |issn=0014-0759}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Branco |first=Juan |date=2014 |title=Podemos : l'indignation au pouvoir ? |url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-esprit-2014-12-page-120.htm |journal=Esprit |language=fr |volume=Décmbr |issue=12 |pages=120 |doi=10.3917/espri.1412.0120 |issn=0014-0759}}</ref>'' and ''].''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Proche-Orient : "Obama est passé d'une stratégie visionnaire à la realpolitik" - Les Inrocks |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/proche-orient-obama-passe-dune-strategie-visionnaire-realpolitik-4255-30-09-2013/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=https://www.lesinrocks.com/ |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Branco |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/auteur/juan-branco/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Les Inrocks |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

In 2013, he was reporter during the ] for ''Les Inrockuptibles''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-02 |title=Juan Branco ou l’histoire secrète d’une obsession |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20191002.OBS19228/juan-branco-ou-l-histoire-secrete-d-une-obsession.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=L'Obs |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Centrafrique : à Bangui, la tension est à son comble - Les Inrocks |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/bangui-centrafrique-tension-comble-115933-21-12-2013/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=https://www.lesinrocks.com/ |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Centrafrique : l'erreur française à Bozoum - Les Inrocks |url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/centrafrique-lerreur-francaise-bozoum-116043-25-12-2013/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=https://www.lesinrocks.com/ |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

In 2016, he investigated ]'s operations in the ], known as the "Uramin scandal", for ''Le Monde Diplomatique,<ref name=":0" />''<ref name=":172" /><ref name=":232" /> and in 2019 he published an article entitled "The indomitable Julian Assange".<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-01 |title=L'indomptable Julian Assange |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2019/05/BRANCO/59876 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=fr}}</ref>

He then developed a critique of ], notably in his book ''Crépuscule.''<ref name=":222" /><ref name=":212" /><ref>{{cite web |date=2019-05-12 |title=Cognin (Savoie) - Il dit avoir été menacé. Juan Branco a annulé sa venue au dernier moment |url=https://www.ledauphine.com/savoie/2019/05/12/juan-branco-a-annule-sa-venue-au-dernier-moment |access-date=2020-02-17 |website=]}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>

== Other activities ==
After he published '']'' in December 2018, denouncing the ] in the hands of billionaires and their role in the election of ], he alienated the French press, which began to criticise him harshly ("complotist", "fascist"...) and investigate his background.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boileau |first=Clément |date=2023-05-21 |title="Complotiste", "fasciste"... Qui est Juan Branco, conseiller juridique de Wikileaks qui s'est mis à dos la presse française ? |url=https://www.lalibre.be/international/2019/04/19/complotiste-fasciste-qui-est-juan-branco-conseiller-juridique-de-wikileaks-qui-sest-mis-a-dos-la-presse-francaise-FABMJHM4QZDPLL2P5EPYGLJBUQ/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=La Libre.be |language=fr}}</ref>

=== Conflict with L'Express ===
In an article published on 11 February 2019, ] claimed that Branco had not been "in charge of a seminar" at the ], described him as a "chic radical who wants the skin of Macron", criticised his closeness to the ], recalled the controversy with ] and questioned the sincerity of his commitment.<ref name="lexpress.fr22" /> Exercising his ], published by the newspaper on 29 April 2019, Branco criticised the article for presenting "a one-sided portrait of a 29-year-old man, based in particular on facts that occurred during minority" ;<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-29 |title=Droit de réponse de Juan Branco |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/politique/droit-de-reponse-de-juan-branco_2074683.html |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}</ref> he also pointed out that L'Express is owned by the businessman and billionaire ], who had been heavily criticised in ].<ref name="ReferenceB2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-15 |title=L'Express VS Juan Branco : le vrai du faux - Par Manuel Vicuña {{!}} Arrêt sur images |url=https://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/lexpress-vs-juan-branco-le-vrai-du-faux |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=www.arretsurimages.net}}</ref><ref name=":02" />

=== Self-promotion on Misplaced Pages ===
In February 2019, ] claimed that, after a dispute with the wife of a former Sciences Po professor over the latter's Misplaced Pages page, he impersonated a Misplaced Pages administrator by signing an email to her employer saying she had unduly modified the page. The professor had alledgely given him a zero for ] during the ].<ref name="ReferenceB2" />

On 21 February 2020, ] claimed that Branco had been editing his own ] pages for many years, in an attempt to embellish his biography. He alledgely made his edits under several identities, using so-called ]. According to the French newspaper, he had also edited other people's articles to portray them in a negative light.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 February 2020 |title=Sur Wikipédia, les vies rêvées de Juan Branco |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/sur-wikipedia-les-vies-revees-de-juan-branco-20200221}}</ref>

=== Benjamin Griveaux affair ===
On 14 February 2020, it was reported that he was representing the Russian artist ], both before and after the latter leaked sexually explicit videos depicting Paris mayoral elections candidate ] on his website ''Pornopolitique''. Multiple sources claimed that Branco was involved in the leak. This was denied by Branco.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 February 2020 |title=Vidéos intimes de Griveaux : le rôle trouble de Juan Branco |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/videos-intimes-de-griveaux-le-role-trouble-de-juan-branco-14-02-2020-2362721_20.php |access-date=2020-02-29 |website=lepoint.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

After Branco was hired by Pavlensky as his defense attorney, the chairman of the French Bar Association opened an inquiry into the appropriateness of the defense in light of Branco's involvement in the affair. No conflict of interest was found, but Branco was advised to step down as Pavlensky's defense attorney nonetheless due to a "lack of distance".<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-02-19 |title=Le bâtonnier de Paris a demandé à Branco de ne pas défendre Pavlenski |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/justice/affaire-griveaux-le-batonnier-de-paris-demande-a-branco-de-ne-pas-defendre-pavlenski-19-02-2020-2363332_2386.php |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=lepoint.fr |language=fr |publication-date=}}</ref> Branco originally followed the advice but later reverted his decision and joined the defense of Pavlensky once more.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-03-05 |title=Branco redevient avocat de Pavlenski et demande une expertise psychiatrique de Griveaux |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/branco-redevient-avocat-de-pavlenski-et-demande-une-expertise-psychiatrique-de-griveaux_2120123.html |access-date=2020-03-05 |website=LExpress.fr |language=fr |publication-date=}}</ref> Branco went on to request an ironical psychological evaluation of Griveaux to know if he had a "cognitive dissociation, and possibly to distinguish it from the more classic ] syndrome seen in a number of high-level politicians", whose defense called the request "grotesque and hateful". The request was denied by the examining magistrate.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-03-12 |title=Griveaux : La justice refuse l'expertise psychiatrique demandée par Branco |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/justice/griveaux-la-justice-refuse-l-expertise-psychiatrique-demandee-par-branco-11-03-2020-2366834_2386.php#xtmc=branco&xtnp=1&xtcr=4 |access-date=2020-04-01 |website=LePoint.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

In October 2020, it was reported that disciplinary proceedings were being pursued against Branco by the Paris Bar Association following his involvement in the affair.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-10-08 |title=L'Ordre des avocats lance des poursuites disciplinaires contre Juan Branco |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20201008.OBS34478/l-ordre-des-avocats-lance-des-poursuites-disciplinaires-contre-juan-branco.html |access-date=2020-12-17 |website=nouvelobs.com |language=fr}}</ref>

In September 2021, he received a blame from the Paris Bar Association for having "amplified the viral distribution" of the intimate videos, but was largely cleared of the other charges.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leplongeon |first=Marc |date=2021-10-04 |title=INFO LE POINT. Affaire Griveaux : Juan Branco sanctionné d'un blâme |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/info-le-point-affaire-griveaux-juan-branco-sanctionne-d-un-blame-04-10-2021-2446153_23.php |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Le Point |language=fr}}</ref>

In 2022, the investigating magistrates definitively cleared Branco of all charges.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-06 |title=Affaire Griveaux : Juan Branco échappe à la justice… mais pas Piotr Pavlenski ni sa compagne |url=https://www.marianne.net/societe/police-et-justice/affaire-griveaux-juan-branco-echappe-a-la-justicemais-pas-piotr-pavlenski-ni-sa-compagne |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}</ref>

=== Proposal to defend Salah Abdeslam ===
On 22 February 2020, ] revealed that in an October 2016 letter to the ], Branco had proposed to ], one of the terrorists responsible for the ], to "dismiss legal advisors" and made suggestions for his defence strategy.<ref name="Abdeslam2">{{cite web |date=22 February 2020 |title=Quand Juan Branco écrivait à Salah Abdeslam |url=https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/exclusif-quand-juan-branco-ecrivait-salah-abdeslam-116341 |access-date=22 February 2020 |website=valeursactuelles.com |publication-date=}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=22 February 2020 |title=Juan Branco a écrit une lettre à Salah Abdeslam en 2016 pour le conseiller |url=https://www.rtl.fr/actu/justice-faits-divers/juan-branco-l-avocat-a-ecrit-une-lettre-a-salah-abdeslam-pour-le-conseiller-7800142425 |access-date=23 February 2020 |website=rtl.fr |publication-date=}}.</ref> Branco claimed to have written the letter because he wanted to "allow those who cannot defend themselves to defend themselves".<ref name=":242">{{Cite web |date=2020-02-24 |title=#VraiOuFake Juan Branco a-t-il vraiment écrit une lettre à Salah Abdeslam ? |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/terrorisme/attaques-du-13-novembre-a-paris/enquete-sur-les-attentats-de-paris/permettre-a-ceux-qui-ne-sont-pas-defendables-d-etre-defendus-l-avocat-juan-branco-assume-d-avoir-propose-de-defendre-salah-abdeslam_3839443.html |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Franceinfo |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":252">{{Cite web |date=2020-02-25 |title="C'est un exercice illégal" : quand il sollicite le terroriste Abdeslam, Juan Branco... n'est pas encore avocat |url=https://www.marianne.net/societe/c-est-un-exercice-illegal-quand-il-sollicite-le-terroriste-abdeslam-juan-branco-n-est-pas |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}</ref> However, ], the terrorist's first French lawyer, denounced an "illegal exercise of the profession".<ref name=":252" /> In fact, when Branco contacted Salah Abdeslam, he was not yet a lawyer. Branco explained that in October 2016, he "had just got his lawyer certificate" and "could be sworn in and become a lawyer in a heartbeat if had wanted to."<ref name=":252" /><ref name=":242" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-24 |title=Branco confirme avoir écrit à Abdeslam en 2016 pour lui proposer de le défendre |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/justice/branco-confirme-avoir-ecrit-a-abdeslam-en-2016-pour-lui-proposer-de-le-defendre_2119194.html |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}</ref>

=== Ongoing justice investigation for rape ===
On 29 April 2021, a 20-year-old woman accused Branco of having abused her after they had taken a drug together.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 May 2021 |title="J'avais peur qu'il devienne violent" : le récit glaçant de la jeune femme qui accuse Juan Branco de viol |newspaper=ladepeche.fr |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/05/02/enquete-pour-viol-contre-lavocat-juan-branco-son-accusatrice-revient-sur-les-faits-9521758.php}}</ref> Branco claimed the relation had been consensual.<ref>{{cite news |date=30 April 2021 |title=L'avocat Juan Branco visé par une enquête pour viol |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/04/30/l-avocat-juan-branco-vise-par-une-enquete-pour-viol_6078680_3224.html |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref> He also showed journalists a conversation in which the young woman assured him that she would withdraw her accusation on the following monday,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=à 20h03 |first1=Par Jean-Michel Décugis et Vincent Gautronneau Le 1 mai 2021 |last2=À 20h02 |first2=Modifié Le 1 Mai 2021 |date=2021-05-01 |title=Visé par une enquête pour viol, l'avocat Juan Branco souhaite être rapidement entendu |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/vise-par-une-enquete-pour-viol-lavocat-juan-branco-souhaite-etre-rapidement-entendu-01-05-2021-TUTZJRGPOJH47OCOXETZM6HMCU.php |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref> but she did not withdraw.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Décugis |first1=Jean-Michel |date=June 2021 |title=Visé par une enquête pour viol, l'avocat Juan Branco placé en garde à vue |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/vise-par-une-enquete-pour-viol-lavocat-juan-branco-place-en-garde-a-vue-01-06-2021-EGEJ347CFZBKRCXVOID5IQJBPU.php |access-date=1 June 2021 |website=Le Parisien}}</ref> Branco was placed under criminal investigation for rape in November 2021.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 November 2021 |title=Juan Branco mis en examen pour viol |newspaper=lepoint.fr |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/info-le-point-juan-branco-mis-en-examen-pour-viol-24-11-2021-2453599_23.php}}</ref>

== Publications ==

* ''Réponses à Hadopi'' (Paris, Capricci, 2011, {{ISBN|978-2918040255}})<ref></ref>
* ''De l'affaire Katanga au contrat social global: Un regard sur la Cour pénale internationale'' (Paris, 2015, LGDJ-IUV, 2015, {{ISBN|978-2370320582}})<ref></ref>
* ''L'ordre et le monde'' (Paris, Fayard, 2016, {{ISBN|978-2213680880}}), edited by ] and ]<ref></ref>
* ''D'après une image de Daesh'' (Paris, Lignes, 2017, {{ISBN|978-2-35526-164-0}})<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-25 |title=Editorial description |url=https://www.editions-lignes.com/D-APRES-UNE-IMAGE-DE-DAESH.html}}</ref>
* ''Contre Macron'' (Edition Divergence, 2019, {{ISBN|979-1097088125}})
* '']'' (Paris, Au Diable Vauvert, 2019, {{ISBN|979-1030702606}})
* ''Assange, l'antisouverain'' (Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2020, {{ISBN|978-2204133074}})
* ''La République ne vous appartient pas : Discours à polytechnique'', (Paris, Au diable vauvert, 2020, 110 <abbr>p.,</abbr> {{ISBN|979-10-307-0379-5}})
* ''Abattre l'ennemi'' (Éditions Michel Lafon, 2021, {{ISBN|978-2-7499-4697-9}})
* ''Treize pillards (''Au diable vauvert, 2022, 112 <abbr>p.,</abbr> {{ISBN|979-1030705072}})
* ''Luttes'' (Michel Lafon, 2022, {{Isbn|978-2749949550}})
* ''Coup d'état'' (Au diable vauvert, 2023, {{ISBN|979-10-307-0625-3}})
* ''Hanouna'' (Au diable vauvert, 2023, {{ISBN|979-1030706246}})


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French-Spanish lawyer, writer and political activist

Juan Branco
Branco in 2019
Born1989 (age 34–35)
Estepona, Andalusia, Spain
Nationality
  • French
  • Spanish
EducationÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) (PhD)
Sciences Po Paris
Paris Sorbonne University
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • political activist
  • writer
EmployerWikiLeaks (2015–2019)
Notable workCrépuscule
Political partyThe Greens (France) (2008)
Socialist Party (France) (2012)
La France Insoumise (2017)
MovementYellow Vests Movement
(since 2018)
FatherPaulo Branco
Websitejuan-branco.fr

Juan Branco (Spanish: [xwam ˈbɾaŋko], French: [ʒɥɑ̃ bʁɑ̃ko]; born 1989) is a French and Spanish lawyer, political activist, and writer.

Branco was born in Spain and grew up in Paris. While a student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), he stood for the Green Party in local elections. He then worked on the 2012 presidential election campaign of Socialist Party's candidate, François Hollande. After that, he completed his master's degrees followed by his PhD in 2014, and became a legal advisor of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange between 2015 and 2019. During this period, he also stood unsuccessfully in the 2017 French legislative election as a candidate for the left wing populist party La France Insoumise. In 2018 he became involved with the Yellow vests movement, some of whose members he defended in court pro bono.

Branco has published thirteen books, the most successful of which is Crépuscule (2019). Selling more than 150,000 copies within a year of publication, the work is a polemic against the links that, according to the author, unite business, media and political leaders in France.

He has courted controversy for his involvement with the Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky in the Griveaux affair in 2020.

In July 2023, as a member of the legal team of the Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, he accused the Senegalese government of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court over the deadly 2023 Senegalese protests. In response, the Senegalese authorities issued an international arrest warrant against him; he was arrested in August 2023 after entering the country clandestinely and deported to France after spending two nights in prison.

Background and education

Branco was born in 1989 in Estepona, near Málaga, one of the four children of psychoanalyst Dolores Lopez and Portuguese film producer Paulo Branco. He grew up in the affluent neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and attended the École alsacienne, an elite private school.

He studied as an undergraduate at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and as a graduate and PhD student at the École normale supérieure, and also at Paris-IV and Paris-I Universities; obtaining a "maîtrise" in modern literature, a master's in political philosophy, another in geopolitics, and a doctorate in international law.

He went on to do research at Yale University in 2013 and wrote a dissertation on the International Criminal Court and mass violence, travelling to the Central African Republic during the civil war. He defended his thesis on 16 November 2014 at the École normale supérieure. He was then employed in 2015 at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg and at La Sapienza University in Rome.

Political activity

As a student, Branco stood for the Green Party in the 2008 local elections in Paris. The following year, he set up the student think-tank Jeune République, with the support of former right-wing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

In 2012, Branco joined François Hollande's Socialist Party presidential election campaign, working in the "culture, audiovisual and media" team as the main collaborator of future Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti. He fell out with Filipetti when she did not appoint him as head of her office once she became minister; according to Branco, he was a victim of the Socialist government's new doctrine on the HADOPI law, an online anti-piracy law which he had opposed since 2009.

In the 2017 French legislative election, Branco stood for the left-wing populist party La France Insoumise for Seine-Saint-Denis's 12th constituency, where he came fourth with 13.94% of the vote.

He was an early supporter of Yellow vests movement, appearing at the head of protest marches and being present when protesters forced the doors of Benjamin Griveaux's ministry with a fork-lift truck. He also defended members of the movement, including Maxime Nicolle, in court pro bono. He then called for abstention in the 2019 European Parliament election in France.

Legal career

Branco was admitted to the bar in April 2017.

Prior to being admitted to the bar, Branco had worked at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the International Criminal Court, an institution on which he wrote two books. He also worked as a legal advisor to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange between 2015 and 2019. He unsuccessfully sought asylum in France for Assange.

In 2018 he represented his father Paulo Branco in his legal dispute with Terry Gilliam over the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with the Court of Appeal of Paris ruling in Branco's favour.

In May 2018, Branco was one of the lawyers appointed by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) to assist the country's newly-established special criminal court. After less than two weeks he was dismissed by the United Nations for having posted on Twitter an accusation that Rwandan peacekeepers had massacred thirty civilians in the capital.

In June 2019, together with Israeli lawyer Omer Shatz and Shatz's students from Sciences Po, Branco filed a 245-page submission to the International Criminal Court over the deaths of thousands of migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean fleeing Libya; they called for the prosecution of European Union and member states over the EU’s deterrence-based migration policy after 2014.

In 2021, Branco represented one of the cyberbullies in the Mila affair, a teenager who was bullied online after she had insulted Islam.

Branco represented a French fan club of FC Barcelona in an unsuccessful attempt to block Lionel Messi's move to Paris St-Germain from a financial fair play standpoint in 2021. He then became La Liga's lawyer in 2022 when the league mounted a similar challenge to Kylian Mbappé's new contract with Paris Saint-Germain.

Griveaux affair

Branco was the legal advisor of Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky who, in February 2020, disseminated an explicit video that led to the resignation of French deputy and Paris mayoral candidate Benjamin Griveaux. Branco voiced his support for Pavlensky's actions in a way that caused speculation that he himself had played a role in the affair. Rejecting the advice of the French Bar Association to resign due to his proximity to the events in question, Branco continued as part of the defence team of Pavlensky when the latter was arrested on charges of invasion of privacy and publishing sexually explicit images without consent. Branco requested a psychiatric examination of the victim, which was characterised by Griveaux's lawyer as "grotesque and hateful", and refused by the court.

In September 2021, Branco received a reprimand from the Paris Bar Association for having sent a link to the offending video. In September 2022, investigating magistrates said that no charges would be brought against Branco although they believed that he had probably played a part in the dissemination of the explicit videos. In June 2023, the reprimand from the Paris Bar Association was overturned in the Paris Court of Appeal.

Sonko affair

In March 2023, Branco was invited to join the defence team of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who was facing charges of defamation after he had accused the tourism minister of mismanaging public funds. Ten days later, he was refused entry to the country after the authorities discovered he had referred to president Macky Sall as a "tyrant" in social media posts.

In June 2023, in the wake of unrest in Senegal, Branco accused the Senegalese government of crimes against humanity, filing a complaint in France and calling for an investigation by the International Criminal Court; in July the French Minister of Foreign Affairs responded by filing a complaint against Branco for having identified French agents in Senegal, accusing him of putting their lives in danger; the Prosecutor's Office decided not to pursue the matter.

Senegal meanwhile issued an international arrest warrant against Branco, which did not prevent him entering the country illegally to attend a press conference of Sonko's legal team on 30 July 2023. On 4 August, he was arrested on the border with Mauritania. Transferred to Rebeuss prison in Dakar, he appeared before a judge on 6 August and was charged with conspiracy, spreading fake news and endangering public safety. The following day he was released on bail with a deportation order and arrived back in Paris on 8 August. At a press conference on the same day, he urged Senegal's government to release all political prisoners. On 18 August, he was received at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, together with Said Larifou, to draw the UN's attention to Sonko's situation.

Questions of integrity

While at school, Branco set up a Skyblog in which fellow pupils were subjected to sexist and homophobic insults. One of those who had been bullied on the blog was future education minister and prime minister Gabriel Attal, who spoke about the experience on TV in November 2023. Branco, who was not named in the interview, responded with a claim that it was Attal who was a bully. Branco had also attacked Attal in his book Crépuscule.

In October 2016 Branco offered his services as a lawyer to the terrorist Salah Abdeslam in a letter which was revealed by Valeurs Actuelles in February 2020. As he was not yet admitted to the bar and therefore not legally permitted to practice law, a number of lawyers characterised Branco's actions as illegal. Branco explained that in October 2016 he had already qualified as a lawyer and could have been admitted to the bar at any time. Abdeslam did not reply to the letter.

Branco has used multiple identities (sockpuppets) since 2005 to embellish his own biography on Misplaced Pages and to settle accounts with others. According to an article in L'Express, he sent an email in 2014 to the employer of another Misplaced Pages editor, in which he pretended to be a Misplaced Pages administrator and threatened them with legal action. Branco responded to the article with a denial, saying he had never attacked anyone on Misplaced Pages.

In April 2021, a 20-year-old woman accused Branco of raping her after having given her the drug lamaline. Branco said the sex was consensual.

Writing

Branco has written the following:

Crépuscule, Branco's most successful work, sold more than 150,000 copies within a year of its publication and was downloaded around a million times. The book is a critique of Macron's presidency and challenges his legitimacy as a president whose election depended, in the opinion of the author, on the support of oligarchs and media barons. Reviewed in the French edition of the magazine Slate, the book was praised for its exploration of the networks of power in France, and criticised for its reliance on unsubstantiated claims. It originally appeared online in December 2018; an expanded version, edited by journalist and writer Denis Robert, was then published in print in March 2019. GQ magazine suggested that Crépuscule was "likely to be the work that defines this period".

In 2020 he published a biography of Assange called Assange, l'antisouverain. Le Point referred to the book as a literary selfie, more about the author than the subject.

Bibliography

  • Mariel Primois, Signé Branco, Paris, Au diable Vauvert, 2019.
  • Franck Cormerais, Amar Lakel, Juan Branco, influenceur éphémère ou figure d’un nouvel « intellectuel numérique » ? in Quaderni 2023/2 (n°109), 39-58.

Notes

  1. former French diploma, intermediate between bachelor's and master's.
  2. A medication containing paracetamol, opium and caffeine.

References

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  2. "Portrait: Le joueur des chèques". Libération. 13 May 1999.
  3. ^ "Affaire Griveaux : ce qu'il faut savoir sur Juan Branco". Le Figaro (in French). 17 February 2020.
  4. "Sénégal: qui est Juan Branco, l'avocat franco-espagnol de l'opposant Ousmane Sonko?". Radio France Internationale (in French). 7 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Des grandes écoles aux "gilets jaunes" en passant par WikiLeaks : qui est Juan Branco, l'avocat proche de Piotr Pavlenski?". France Info. 7 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Hadopi fait une première victime à gauche". Le Monde (in French). 22 May 2012.
  7. "ICC submission calls for prosecution of EU over migrant deaths". The Guardian. 2 June 2019.
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  9. "Paris appeals court rules in favour of Paulo Branco on 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'". Screen Daily. 15 June 2018.
  10. "U.N. fires Central Africa legal adviser who accused peacekeepers of massacre". Reuters. 31 May 2018.
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  14. "Court upholds Lionel Messi's move to PSG". MARCA. 19 July 2023.
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