Remove perforation dots from drawing

[stalker]

I’d like to remove perforation dots/lines from drawing. It’s a scan of well-known “Bicycle Day” LSD blotter. What filter should I look for?

Sample:

[David_Tschumperle (G'MIC staff)]

Filter ‘Repair / Remove Hot Pixels’ seems to do a decent first pass :

it gives:

[stalker]

Thank you. As first approximation it is OK, but the blur is too big. Can I use wavelet decompose or FFT in this example?