jcjeant, speaking in USA terms BEA has an absolute right to criticize Le Figaro for its sloppy reporting and request that they shut the (whatever) up. And Le Figaro has an absolute right to go on being rectal orifices.
In French terms I am not sure what rights, if any, a person has. But if BEA does not have a right to lay into Le Figaro for irresponsible reporting something is, IMAO, terribly terribly broken.
Had BEA not lit into Le Figaro that way then Le Figaro's sensationalism would stand and gradually become perceived as "truth" when it may not have been.
edit: Let me add that nothing BEA did constitutes censorship, the action of preventing someone from publishing as they choose. Nor is anything BEA did in the least bit immoral in an honest world. They did NOT extend a hand to prevent Le Figaro publishing. They simply declared Le Figaro and its reporter were reprehensible people.