Knowing nothing of the situations details, when you're a thorn in the side of the most powerful interests on the planet,it seems reasonable that a small group would face deliberate, concentrated pressure from business to legal and the state and any other mechanism. That's generally what power does, assuming the little guy isn't subsumed.

What is the evidence of foul play by GOS, or why would they not have a pretty extreme bias of support?

Their past dramas are irrelevant to this issue.

Giving into a straw man argument such as their other dramas somehow devalue what's going on now, only plays into the French propaganda campaign.