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| Truth no defence: French court overturns acquittal in al-Dura case |
| 2012-02-29 |
| A Paris appellant court overturned a ruling exonerating a French-Jewish politician who claimed that a France 2 TV report suggesting that the IDF killed Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura was staged. Â A libel suit filed against Carasenti had once been rejected but will now return to court. The France 2 report caused a global stir and caused grave damage to Israel. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 It's like the referendums re joining EU, JFM? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-02-29 14:12 |
| #4 So it's an interim step, JFM? Good to know. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-02-29 12:16 |
| #3 I haven't read the decision but Cour de Casstioon is not supposed to judge and not supposed to consider the facts, it only examines if everything was according to the law and in case it doesn't it nominates another court for judging again. |
| Posted by: JFM 2012-02-29 12:13 |
| #2 ..from the people who brought you the Dreyfus Affair. When its a fight between the truth and the ruling caste, it's a good bet on the ruling caste. Or as in America, we say "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-02-29 10:01 |
| #1 I gather this event was so heavily staged that they could make a behind-the-scenes documentary for the DVD extras. But "Old Europe" seems utterly impervious to common sense. A libel law that ignores that a duck is a duck, even if it is a duck, looks and sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck; because it is in some weird way more important that the duck is *offended* by being called a duck, will eventually cause a breakdown in society. "Offensensitivity", as Berkeley Breathed called it, is a path to madness. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-29 09:09 |