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Spain Ex-PM sues Moroccan website for libel
Aznar: "Not my bun in her oven!" |
[Al Arabiya Latest] Spain's former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has filed a lawsuit against a Moroccan Internet news website that claimed he was the father of French politician Rachida Dati's baby, a spokesman said Monday.| It's not libel if it's true. Has the gentleman run an DNA test? Or at least a blood test -- which has the advantages of being both quicker and faster, and is just as good at proving the negative. |
Moroccan newspaper Le Soir reported that Aznar had filed the defamation suit at a Madrid court against the L'Observateur website, which reported in September that he was the father of Dati's baby girl Zohra, born in January.
| He filed suit in a Spanish court against a Moroccan news site reporting on the parentage of a French baby? This friendly court thingy is getting silly. |
A spokesman for Aznar's Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (FAES) confirmed a lawsuit had been filed recently but gave no further details. In a statement issued in September he dismissed the report as a "total and complete falsehood" and said he had instructed his lawyers to take immediate legal action against anyone spreading false information about him.
Former French Justice Minister Dati, born to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother, admitted she has a "complicated" private life. Dati is a single mother and her refusal to name the child's father has triggered a whirl of media speculation about his identity.
In December a Spanish court ordered private Spanish television station Telecinco to pay 240,000 ($335,000) in damages to Aznar and his wife for falsely announcing the couple's separation.
Posted by: Fred 2009-06-09 |
