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Canton of Vaud Examining Magistrate For the Canton of Vaud To the Competent English Authorities for criminal matters Date 23 November, 1992 Our ref. CH/132/92 LETTERS ROGATORY STATEMENT OF FACTS I wish to inform you that a complaint has been lodged with me by the INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE, an association which has the status of a legal entity in Switzerland, domiciled in Lausanne, and on whose behalf Mr Juan Antonio SAMARANCH, President, Mr. Francois CARRARD, Managing Director, and Mrs. Francoise ZWEIFEL, general secretary, act and another complaint by Mr. Juan Antonio SAMARANCH personally, for libel and possibly defamation within the meaning of Articles 173 and 174 of the Swiss Penal Code. These complaints are leveled against the authors of the book entitled in English "The Lords of the Rings" and in French "Main basse sur les J.O." The book was published in London in April 1992 by Simon and Schuster and distributed in a French translation Bby Flammarion, in Paris. According to the text of the work, the authors are Messrs. Vyv SIMSON and Andrew JENNINGS.
I have exchanged correspondence with Mr. Andrew JENNINGS. Within the framework of international legal aid, notably in application of the European Convention relating to legal aid in criminal proceedings dated 20th April 1959, I would be much obliged if you would have Mr. Vyvian Gregory SIMSON and Mr. Andrew JENNINGS heard by the competent English authorities, as the accused persons, and to ask them the following questions. 1. I inform you that the INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE and Mr Juan Antonio SAMARANCH have lodged complaints against you for attacking their honour, more precisely for defamation and libel, which are violations suppressed by Swiss law in Articles 173 and 174 of the Swiss Penal Code because of certain passages in the book "The Lords of the Rings" and its French translation "Main Basse sur les J.O." (Enclosure 1). 2. Do you admit you are the authors of the book "The Lords of the Rings"? 3. Do you admit you are responsible for the text of this book?
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