LFI sentenced to wreck to “image right” | EUROtoday

The Nanterre judicial court docket sentenced, Friday, March 21, rebellious France (LFI) to pay 3,500 euros to Cyril Hanouna for an infringement of the “image right”, attributable to a caricature of the animator who earned the motion of anti -Semitism accusations.

Donating in civil proceedings, the court docket additionally prohibited the copy on any help of the poster, initially put on-line on the social networks of LFI, then withdrawn a number of days in the past, in line with the judgment of which the Agency France-Presse (AFP) had a replica.

“I am very happy”soberly commented Cyril Hanouna in his program “Touche pas à mon poste” (“TPMP”), within the night, specifying that this sum could be donated to an affiliation combating in opposition to anti -Semitism.

Cyril Hanouna, whose criticism was examined on Wednesday, deliberate a prison motion, in line with his lawyer, Stéphane Hasbanian. He pointed to AFP a “Shocking photomontage”whose character “Anti -Semitic” must be the topic of this new process.

Tense relations

For his half, LFI rejects all “Anti -Semitic significance”. The radical left motion, which mentioned they appealed the judgment, has been responding for a number of days to quite a few arrests after the publication of this visible meant to beat the recall to take part within the demonstrations of March 22 in opposition to racism.

We noticed Cyril Hanouna, of Tunisian Jewish origin and near the conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, in black and white, frowning and aggressive grimace. An picture seen by many political leaders as taking over the iconography of anti -Semitic caricatures of the Thirties and Nazi Germany. “It’s a caricature that brings us back to the darkest hours” And “It’s knowingly”mentioned Cyril Hanouna.

His relations with LFI have deteriorated in recent times, whereas a number of figures of the motion appeared beforehand repeatedly in his emissions. The tensions culminated in November 2022, when the host lived stay the deputy LFI Louis Boyard, who had criticized Vincent Bolloré, in “TPMP” on C8, which belongs to the Canal+group, within the fold of Mr. Bolloré.

A “clumsiness”

In the demonstrations scheduled for Saturday, associations to fight anti -Semitism shall be on the prime of the procession with the unions, assured the chief of the CGT, Sophie Binet on Friday. “We cannot fight against racism without fighting anti -Semitism and vice versa”she mentioned on RTL, recalling that the CGT had judged “Unacceptable” The posters representing Cyril Hanouna.

Various LFI officers admitted a ” error “ or a “Movedesy”recognizing in current days that the picture had been generated by synthetic intelligence. But not Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who swept the accusation of a “Shut up” To a journalist who questioned him on Sunday. On Wednesday, the LFI chief once more postponed the fees of anti -Semitism linked to the disputed poster. “It’s been seven days that we are shooting on it: it goes through, or almost”he launched.

About ten days in the past, LFI had quickly changed the caricature of the animator with a easy {photograph} from “TPMP”. It is a decide on the deserves who must rule on a doable assault on the suitable to the picture on this poster.

The host requested for the ban on utilizing his picture for any LFI poster, the purpose on which the decide of abstract proceedings dismissed him. In a press launch, the occasion and its attorneys thought-about that the choice in abstract proceedings “Positive” Because, specifically, she “Considers as legitimate the debate on the links between Mr. Hanouna and the extreme right, and underlines the freedom of expression which France benefits within the framework of its visual campaigns”.