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Switzerland in a French translation under the title "Main basse
sur les J.O" by Flammarion, Paris, the authors of the translation
being Anna Gibson and Jean Bonnefoy.
In support of the present penal complaint, we state the
following:
a) Authority to act:
1. As per article 19 of the Olympic Charter, the International
Olympic Committee (hereafter "IOC") is a non-governmental
international organisation, organised in the form of a nonprofit
making association incorporated. The IOC has been
acknowledged in this quality by Order of the Federal Counsel of
September 17th, 1981.
complaint.
The IOC has therefore the authority to lodge this penal
2. Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch intervenes here as a plaintiff
under his title of President of the IOC and as far as needed on
his own personal account where the accused book involves him
personally in charging him of adopting behaviour against the
honour and to hold in contempt the most elementary moral
values.
b) Competence of the Judge ratione loci.