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| Nicolas Sarkozy threatens to sue over voodoo doll |
| 2008-10-22 |
| Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue the makers of a voodoo doll of the French leader which is sold with instructions on how to stick pins in it. Each body part of the doll, which comes with a set of pins and a "voodoo instruction manual", is accompanied by a provocative quote related to the French president. These include his campaign slogan "work more to earn more," or "platform heels" – referring to the diminutive president's chunky shoes designed to gain a few inches in height. On his groin is written "scum" – the word he used to describe young suburban delinquents before the riots of 2005. Some 20,000 voodoo kits, which come complete with a satirical biography, have already been produced. Mr Sarkozy's lawyer Thierry Herzog called on the makers to "immediately cease all distribution of this doll". He added: "Nicolas Sarkozy has charged me with reminding you that he commands an exclusive and absolute right over his image, regardless of his status and fame." The company, K&K, has also produced 12,000 dolls of SégolÚne Royal, the Socialist candidate Mr Sarkozy defeated in last year's presidential elections. Her lawyer described the doll as a "breach of dignity" and also promised legal action. K&K said the demand to withdraw the dolls was "totally disproportionate" and that it would make more of other politicians if they sold well. Mr Sarkozy has launched several law suits for libel since taking up office last June. In January he won a case against the budget airline Ryanair after it released a poster featuring him with his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Last week, he sued the former head of France's police intelligence service after extracts of his notebooks were published. They included unsubstantiated allegations about Mr Sarkozy's private life and financial affairs. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 I really don't care for sarcocu the conman, but I have to concur with JFM, 1) racaille/scum is the word the Youths themselves use to describe their kind, and has entered common lmanguage to the point it is colloquially used to designate Youths, so there really is NO inflammatory value in it anyway, past the "controversy" manufactured by the msm then, and 2) it was not even used by sarko himself, he was just responding to a woman, as he was visiting an occupied 'hood, and was "ambushed" by State-owned france 2 television (because dominique galouzeau "de villepin" had mebbes omething to do with that, and because sarko sold himself as conservative/rightwing, which is pretty funny in itself with hindsight, and the left REALLY don't like him, cf the doll). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-10-22 09:12 |
| #1 Actually it was not Sarkozy who used the word scum. It was a person living in a lawless zone who used this tem while talking to Sarkozy. One of those persons who fears for her kids and her belongings. One of persons who lived were those rich white kids named journalists (the people who doused gasoline on fire by preting it was Sarkozy) don't live. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-10-22 08:28 |