When Sine, a popular cartoonist who had a weekly column in he magazine published what the editor Phillipe Val called an anti-semite cartoon, he told Sine he had to write an apology in his next column or be sacked. Sine refused and so Val sacked him. Sine took Val to court for damages, and was awarded 40,000 euro for wrongly being labeled an anti-semite by Phillipe Val. Where was the outcry for freedom of speech then. I condemn the violence whole heartedly in Paris yesterday, but have to wonder why no cry for freedom of speech when the same magazine was denying it, illegally according to a French court, to its regular cartoonist Sine.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:57:50 +0000