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French police woke journalist Vittorio de Filippis up one morning, handcuffed him and hauled him off to a courthouse, where he was twice stripped and had a body cavity search performed on him. Then he was questioned without an attorney for several hours by an investigating magistrate before being released. What did he do to merit such treatment? He allegedly did not answer a court summons in a libel case.