French cartoonist Sine on trial on charges of anti-Semitism over Sarkozy jibe
1/27/2009
Maurice Sinet, 80, who works under the pen name Sine, faces charges of “inciting racial hatred” for a column he wrote last July in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The piece sparked a summer slanging match among the Parisian intelligentsia and ended in his dismissal from the magazine.
“L’affaire Sine” followed the engagement of Mr Sarkozy, 22, to Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, the Jewish heiress of an electronic goods chain. Commenting on an unfounded rumour that the president’s son planned to convert to Judaism, Sine quipped: “He’ll go a long way in life, that little lad.”
[Ed. note ~ Freedom of speech? What freedom of speech! It no longer exists in Europe and is quickly being extinguished here in America courtesy of the SPLC and other liberal obstacles to liberty! What's a freedom loving patriotic American to do? Why, kick ass and take names, of course!!!]
Harold
