Tuesday, December 07, 2010

French court acquits anti-Islam politician of incitement



We read:
"A French criminal court Thursday acquitted right- wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen of charges of incitement against Muslims during a regional election campaign earlier in the year.

Human rights groups had filed a suit against the 81-year-old Le Pen, currently a deputy in the European Parliament, accusing him of religious incitement over a campaign poster of his National Front (FN) party last March.

The poster bore the message 'no to Islamism' and depicted a fully- veiled woman in front of a map of France, the Algerian national flag, and a missile resembling a minaret.

At the time, a court in Marseille, acting on complaints, ordered the posters to be removed.

In a hearing on October 28, prosecutors demanded a one-year suspension of Le Pen's right stand for election, a two-month suspended jail term and a fine of 20,000 euros (27,000 dollars).

Le Pen's defence argued successfully in court that the poster was not directed against Islam as a whole, but rather Islamism and that the suit had wrongly targeted him, instead of the FN.

Source

He has been successfully prosecuted before in response to his outspoken views but seems to have beaten this one on a technicality

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's very difficult to find justice in the very socialist EU. But i'm sure that will change when it's totally controlled by radical Islam. Of course, it may not be the type of justice Europeans had in mind, but at that point, it won't really matter.

Adolf was right. We were wrong.

Anonymous said...

Those aren't missiles that look like minarets.
They are minarets!

Spurwing Plover said...

That sound the french are hearing is NAPOLEON BONAPART and CHARLES DeGUALE spinning in their graves