by Jon Henley in Paris Saturday June 4, 2005
(thanks Paul for alerting us to this one)
A French appeal court has found the editor-in-chief of Le Monde and the authors of an opinion piece in the paper guilty of 'racial defamation' against Israel and the Jewish people.
In a ruling greeted with applause by Jewish groups and some alarm by media lawyers, the court ordered Jean-Marie Colombani and the three writers to pay a symbolic one euro in damages to the France-Israel Association and to Lawyers Without Borders....
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