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Spain Ex-PM sues Moroccan website for libel
2009-06-09

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

#1  "It's not libel if it's true."

I need to disagree. It's libel if THEY cannot prove it's true.
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-06-09 13:32  

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