#francis szpiner

[randomrichards]

STORY OF WOMEN:

In occupied France

Housewife provides abortion

Gets the guillotine

[byneddiedingo]

Isabelle Huppert in Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988)

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Marie Bunel, Dominique Blanc, Evelyne Didi, Dani, François Maistre, Vincent Gauthier. Screenplay: Colo Tavernier, Claude Chabrol, based on a book by Francis Szpiner. Cinematography: Jean Rabier. Production design: Françoise Benoît-Fresco. Film editing: Monique Fardoulis. Music: Matthieu Chabrol.

"Women's business" is what Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) tells her husband (François Cluzet) is going on behind closed doors in their apartment. The business is abortion, which Marie provides for prostitutes and other women who are finding childbirth to be a burden during the German occupation of France. But "Women's Business" might also be an apt translation of the original title of Chabrol's film, Une Affaire de Femmes. Based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, who went to the guillotine in 1943 for the abortions she had induced, Story of Women is a deeply feminist film, though never a preachy one. Huppert, as usual, gives an extraordinary performance, emphasizing not only her character's determination to do what she thinks is right for the women she knows, but also her profoundly fatal naïveté about the politics of the era in which she is living. "Women's business" is to survive the ignorance and brutality of men, by any means necessary, but it betrays Marie into some choices that a woman with more knowledge of the way the world works might avoid. She loses sight of the fact that she became an abortionist to survive the deprivation that threatens her life and that of her children, and becomes fixated on their greatly improved standard of living and the possibility that she might earn enough to fulfill  her dream of becoming a professional singer. (A distant dream, as her performance of a song in an audition for a music teacher suggests.) In the end, she goes to a guillotine that is not the toweringly glamorous instrument of death we've grown accustomed to from films about the French Revolution, but a grim and shabby little affair cobbled together from plywood and sheet metal -- a fitting image for the shabbiness of the Vichy régime and its treatment of those it saw as a threat.

[killer-klowns]

Échos d’un sombre empire / Un tout petit prince héritier patiente sur un cube rouge et or.

[ipsofacto-ch]

Mis en examen en février de l’année passée et placé en détention préventive jusqu’au mois de novembre, Tariq Ramadan est toujours sous contrôle judiciaire mais il lance une contre-offensive: comme l’a révélé RTL, il a déposé une série de plaintes contre ses deux accusatrices pour «dénonciation calomnieuse» et «dénonciation d’une infraction imaginaire». Une de ses plaintes vise aussi une troisième accusatrice, Mounia Rabbouj, qui l’accuse de 9 viols entre 2013 et 2014, mais dont les faits n’ont pas fait l’objet d’une mise en examen par les juges d’instruction.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Une Affaire de Femmes" de Claude Chabrol (1988) - inspiré du livre éponyme de l'avocat Francis Szpiner (1986), lui-même inspiré de l'histoire vraie de la comme « Faiseuse d'Anges » Marie-Louise Giraud (1903-1943) une des dernières femmes guillotinées en France - avec Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, Marie Bunel, Dominique Blanc et la participation de Dani, février 2022.

[thefeministherald]

In France’s Delayed #MeToo, Powerful Men Fall, One After Another - The New York Times

Is there actually hope for France? Though young French women told their stories online the country has resisted change since #metoo went global in 2017. Now they are looking to finally take sexual harassment and sexual assault seriously.

Article follows:

PARIS — When Sandra Muller started France’s #MeToo social media campaign in 2017, tens of thousands of women responded to her calls to “#ExposeYourPig.”

But the backlash was overwhelming. Some of the most prominent women in the country, led by Catherine Deneuve, denounced the movement in a letter that came to define France’s initial response to #MeToo. In 2019, Ms. Muller lost a defamation case against a former television executive she had exposed on Twitter, with France appearing immune to the larger global forces challenging the dominance of men.

Last week, Ms. Muller won her appeal. Though there were no new facts, a significant ruling by the appeals court underscored how things have changed in the past two years.

“Before the ruling, I thought there were stirrings,” Ms. Muller said in a phone interview from New York, where she now lives. “Now, I have the impression that there’s been a leap forward.”

Since the beginning of the year, a series of powerful men from some of France’s most prominent fields — politics, sports, the news media, academia and the arts — have faced direct and public accusations of sexual abuse in a reversal from mostly years of silence. At the same time, confronted with these high-profile cases and a shift in public opinion, French lawmakers are hurrying to set 15 as the age of sexual consent — only three years after rejecting such a law.

The recent accusations have not only led to official investigations, the loss of positions for some men and outright banishment from public life for others. They have also resulted in a rethinking of French masculinity and of the archetype of Frenchmen as irresistible seducers — as part of a broader questioning of many aspects of French society and amid a conservative backlash against ideas on gender, race and postcolonialism supposedly imported from American universities.

“Things are moving so fast that sometimes my head spins,” said Caroline De Haas, a feminist activist who in 2018 founded #NousToutes, a group against sexual violence. She described herself as “super optimistic.”

Ms. Haas said that France was going through a delayed reaction to #MeToo after a “maturation” period during which many French began to understand the social dimensions behind sexual violence and the concept of consent.

That was especially so, Ms. Haas said, after the testimony in the past year of Adèle Haenel, the first high-profile actress to speak out over abuse, and of Vanessa Springora, whose memoir, “Consent,” documented her abuse by the pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff.

“The start of 2021 has been a sort of aftershock,” Ms. Haas said. “What’s very clear is that, today in France, we don’t at all have the same reaction that we did four, five years ago to testimonies of sexual violence against well-known people.”

Last month, Pierre Ménès, one of France’s most famous television sports journalists, was suspended indefinitely by his employer after the release of a documentary that exposed sexism in sports journalism, “I’m Not a Slut, I’m a Journalist.”

Just a few years ago, few criticized him for behavior that they now don’t dare defend in public, including forcibly kissing women on the mouth on television and, in front of a studio audience in 2016, lifting the skirt of a female journalist — Marie Portolano, the producer of the documentary.

“The world’s changed, it’s #MeToo, you can’t do anything anymore, you can’t say anything anymore,” Mr. Ménès said in a television interview after the documentary’s release. He said he didn’t remember the skirt incident, adding that he hadn’t been feeling like himself at the time because of a physical illness.

The list of other prominent men is long and getting longer. There is Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, France’s most famous news anchor, who is being investigated on allegations of raping a young woman and who defended himself on television by saying that he belonged to a generation for whom “seduction was important” and included “kisses on the neck.” He has denied the rape accusations.

There is Georges Tron, a former government minister, who was cleared in 2018 of raping an employee but was condemned in February to five years in prison in an appeals court ruling that, according to Le Monde, reflected the fact that society’s “understanding of consent has unquestionably changed.”

There is Gérard Depardieu, France’s biggest film star, and Gérald Darmanin, the powerful interior minister, also under investigation in rape cases that were reopened last year. Both have said they are innocent.

Olivier Duhamel, a prominent intellectual, and Richard Berry, a famous actor, have both been recently placed under investigation after accusations of incest by family members. Mr. Berry has denied the accusations; Mr. Duhamel has not commented on the charges against him.

Claude Lévêque, the internationally known artist, is under investigation on suspicion of rape of minors and was publicly accused for the first time in January by a former victim. He has denied the accusations.

Dominique Boutonnat, a movie producer whom President Emmanuel Macron named president of the National Center for Cinema last year, was placed under investigation in February on allegation of attempted rape and sexual assault of his godson and has said he is innocent.

“This recent wave in France, it’s a delayed reaction to the Matzneff affair,” Francis Szpiner, the lawyer representing Ms. Muller, said, adding that the downfall of the pedophile writer and of Mr. Duhamel made people realize that powerful men in France were not “untouchable.”

In 2017, in the immediate aftermath of the #MeToo disclosures involving the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, Ms. Muller, a journalist, began #ExposeYourPig — #BalanceTonPorc in French — in France. In a Twitter post, she recounted how during a television festival in Cannes, an executive told her, “You have big breasts. You are my type of woman. I will make you orgasm all night.”

The executive, Eric Brion, did not deny making such comments. But because the two did not work together, Mr. Brion argued the comments did not amount to sexual harassment and sued Ms. Muller for defamation. A ruling in 2019 that ordered Ms. Muller to pay 15,000 euros in damages, around $17,650, was overturned last week.

In 2019, the court said that Ms. Muller had “surpassed the acceptable limits of freedom of expression, as her comments descended into a personal attack.” This time, the judges found that Ms. Muller had acted in good faith, adding that the “#balancetonporc and #MeToo movements had drawn a lot of attention, had been hailed by diverse officials and personalities and had positively contributed to letting women speak freely.”

Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, a leading feminist philosopher, said that it was significant that the men now under investigation were leaders in a diversity of fields. Revelations surrounding them have undermined the myths of Frenchmen as great seducers and of a refined romantic culture where “we, French, in our interplay of seduction, know how to interpret nonverbal signs and we have this art of seduction, a gentle commerce between the sexes,” she said.

“These are men who all embody, in some ways, the old patriarchal order of things — of men of power and men who have used and abused their power to sexually exploit the bodies of others, whether they be women or young men,” Ms. Froidevaux-Metterie said, adding, “Perhaps we are experiencing the first real shock to that system.”

[eretzyisrael]

A French prosecutor has dropped charges against the killer of Jewish kindergarten teacher Sarah Halimi after experts ruled he had suffered a massive psychotic episode by smoking cannabis.

Ms Halimi, who was Orthodox, was killed after Kobili Traoré broke into her council flat in eastern Paris on April 4 2017.

Witnesses said the 65-year-old was beaten and called a “demon” by her attacker, who recited Koranic verses as he threw her off her balcony.

In an appeals court hearing on Wednesday Traoré admitted killing Ms Halimi, saying he was not aware of his actions on the night of the murder and did not recognise when he broke in.

“I felt persecuted. When I saw the Torah and a chandelier in her home I felt oppressed. I saw her face transforming,” he said.

But in a rare turn of events, French prosecutors were divided on how to proceed.

Local prosecutors in Paris initially argued that Kobili Traoré should be put on trial for his actions. But they were opposed by the more senior procureur général, which argued Traoré should be hospitalised.

The different opinions come after separate panels of psychiatrists concluded Mr Traoré had suffered a psychotic episode after a massive use of cannabis, but disagreed over whether he was partially aware of his actions.

During an earlier hearing, Halimi family lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel asked Traoré: “Do you think you should be tried? And get a sentence for what you have done?”

Traoré answered “yes”, but his lawyer Thomas Bidnic responded: “Since when does the accused decide if he should be tried?”

Witnesses told Wednesday’s hearing that shortly before Ms Halimi was thrown from the balcony Traoré shouted “a woman is trying to kill herself”.

Her family’s lawyers said it proved Traoré was already planning his defence.

Mr Bidnic said there were “no good solutions in the case”, adding: “This is Sarah Halimi’s tragedy, her family’s tragedy and this boy’s tragedy, although I’m not comparing the two. Sending him to hospital is not ideal nor sending him to prison.”

He said Traoré, who remains in a psychiatric hospital but is receiving limited amounts of medication, is “still a threat”.

Francis Szpiner, another Halimi family lawyer, said the case was setting a historic precedent: “You’re saying that people can walk free after carrying out criminal action just because they were allegedly not aware of the effects of drugs or other substances?

“Will this also apply to drunk drivers who kill children on the road?”

The court will rule on December 19 on whether Traoré should face trial.

[reseau-actu]

Depuis trois ans, le milliardaire russe Dmitri Rybolovlev, propriétaire de l'AS Monaco, s'écharpe avec le marchand d'art suisse Yves Bouvier dans une bataille judiciaire où sont en cause des surfacturations de près d'un milliard d'euros sur la vente de toiles de maître. Une affaire qui fait remonter à la surface du Rocher jeux d'influence, corruption et blanchiment.

Imaginez que vous souhaitiez égayer les murs de votre appartement et qu'une relation commune vous présente un garçon sympathique, qui a bon goût et connaît mieux que vous le marché aux puces de Saint-Ouen. Vous demandez à ce nouvel ami de chiner pour vous et, en dédommagement, vous lui proposez, comme ça, de vive voix, 2 % du prix des toiles qu'il aura dénichées.

C'est un peu ce qui est arrivé à Dmitri Rybolovlev, en 2003, quand il fit la connaissance d'Yves Bouvier. À cette petite différence près que M. Rybolovlev, immensément riche, propriétaire entre autres du club de football de Monaco, ne souhaitait pas décorer son F3 mais constituer une collection d'œuvres exceptionnelles. Et que M. Bouvier, ressortissant suisse, est une personnalité connue du monde de l'art, notamment pour son rôle d'opérateur éminent dans le port franc de Genève, une sorte d'entrepôt-musée fermé au public, regorgeant de pièces inestimables.

» LIRE AUSSI - À Monaco, la justice ébranlée par une affaire

M. Bouvier a efficacement chiné à travers le monde. Sans le moindre écrit le désignant comme mandataire, en échange de 2 % du montant total des achats, avec l'entière confiance de Dmitri Rybolovlev. Picasso, Modigliani, Gauguin, Rothko, Van Gogh, Klimt, Renoir et même Léonard de Vinci… Trente-huit toiles plus splendides les unes que les autres garnissent, au fil des années, une collection estimée à 2 milliards d'euros. En 2014, M. Rybolovlev rencontre un autre milliardaire, américain, et les deux hommes discutent de leurs petits bonheurs de nababs amateurs d'art. Ce qui donne, en substance:

L'Américain: «J'ai vendu un Modigliani 96 millions de dollars.»

Le Russe: «Ah bon? Moi j'en ai acheté un à 118 millions. Quand l'avez-vous vendu?»

L'Américain: «Il y a environ trois ans. Une très belle toile, Nu couché au coussin bleu.»

Le Russe, blême: «Veuillez m'excuser.»

Dmitri Rybolovlev vient d'apprendre qu'il a payé, en 2011, le Nu couché 22 millions de dollars de plus que ce qu'avait déboursé son ami Bouvier. En 2015, il porte plainte contre lui, à Monaco, pour escroquerie. Et lance d'autres procédures à New York, Genève et Singapour. Yves Bouvier, défendu à Paris par Me  Francis Szpiner, réfute fermement toutes les accusations et retourne même la procédure à l'envoyeur - nous allons y venir.

La méthode Bouvier

Ce n'est ni l'authenticité ni le prix élevé des peintures qui posent problème. Mais la méthode d'Yves Bouvier: selon les avocats du milliardaire russe, celui-ci faisait croire à son «mandant» qu'il négociait âprement avec les vendeurs, alors qu'il avait déjà acquis le tableau dont le prix continuait donc à grimper artificiellement. De sorte que le préjudice allégué avoisinerait - surfacturation et pourcentage gonflé inclus - le milliard d'euros.

«Nous avons la preuve de cette escroquerie, affirme Me Hervé Temime. Comme la vidéo d'un braquage». Il s'agit, en l'espèce, de nombreux courriels échangés entre un collaborateur de M. Rybolovlev, qui ne comprend que sa langue maternelle, et M. Bouvier, qui ne parle pas russe.

«Nous avons la preuve de cette escroquerie. Comme la vidéo d'un braquage»

L'acquisition du Christ comme Salvator Mundi , de Vinci, est de ce point de vue emblématique. Car avant de le céder, en 2013, pour 127,5 millions de dollars à M. Rybolovlev, Yves Bouvier l'a acheté 80 millions seulement à son précédent propriétaire, par l'entremise de la maison Sotheby's, extérieure aux procédures en cours mais dont la documentation permet de mettre en lumière la différence de prix (environ 45,5 millions d'euros…).

Tout semble s'être noué le 10 avril 2013. Tandis qu'un émissaire de M. Bouvier fait affaire avec les vendeurs pour 80 millions, en présence d'un expert de Sotheby's, M. Bouvier écrit au collaborateur francophone de Dmitri Rybolovlev, entre 18h42 et 22h57: «[Ils] ne veulent pas baisser le prix, quand même obtenu 10% pour paiement rapide […] 100  [millions] rejeté sans délai de réflexion […] Un vrai dur mais je me bats et prends le temps nécessaire […] Conclu à 127,5. Terriblement difficile, mais c'est une très bonne affaire par rapport à ce chef-d'œuvre unique de Léonard.» Me Temime voit dans la concomitance de ces deux événements la preuve irréfutable de la duplicité de M. Bouvier.

» LIRE AUSSI - Affaire Rybolovlev: Yves Bouvier porte plainte pour corruption

Celui-ci non seulement se défend, mais il contre-attaque. «Faute de contrat écrit, la loi de l'offre et de la demande s'applique, argumente Me Szpiner. M. Rybolovlev a revendu le Vinci aux enchères pour 450 millions de dollars, tout le monde aimerait être lésé de la sorte.» À quoi Me Temime rétorque: «Cette défense est très habile, qui cherche à faire passer une monumentale escroquerie pour un simple litige commercial.»

Mais M. Bouvier n'en reste pas là. Pour lui, Dmitri Rybolovlev a fait main basse sur la justice de Monaco.«Il se croit chez lui à Chypre [où sont domiciliées certaines de ses sociétés] comme à Monte-Carlo, il a racheté l'île grecque de Skorpios. C'est un Onassis mal élevé», gronde Me Szpiner.

La bourde de la «tsarine»

À ce stade du récit, entre en jeu un personnage central: Me Tetiana Bersheda. Cette jeune femme d'origine ukrainienne est l'un des conseils du propriétaire de l'AS Monaco. Cette qualité associée à un caractère bien trempé lui vaut le sobriquet de «tsarine». Elle a, par le passé, obtenu que le divorce de son client ne le ruine pas. Mais dans l'affaire des tableaux, elle commet une bourde inexplicable en remettant aux enquêteurs son téléphone portable, afin qu'ils vérifient l'authenticité et l'intégrité d'un enregistrement réalisé par ses soins à l'insu de la personne enregistrée - l'amie commune qui avait présenté M. Bouvier à M. Rybolovlev. Grave imprudence: si Me Bersheda avait effacé tout le reste, elle ne s'est pas doutée que les experts de la police avaient les moyens de faire réapparaître les fichiers détruits. Ils ne s'en sont pas privés.

» LIRE AUSSI - À Monaco, les liaisons dangereuses de Rybolovlev avec les autorités

Une mine: l'avocate apparaît en relation avec de hauts responsables de la police judiciaire du Rocher, à qui des places bien situées étaient généreusement offertes les soirs de match au stade Louis-II, avec le procureur général et même avec le ministre de la Justice, Philippe Narmino. Ce dernier et son épouse ont, notamment, profité d'un agréable séjour tous frais payés, voyage en hélicoptère compris, dans le chalet de Gstaad de M. Rybolovlev. Quand le scandale éclate, en septembre dernier, M. Narmino est contraint à faire valoir ses droits à la retraite. Le procureur général, lui, a rejoint une autre juridiction.

Pour Me Szpiner, il ne fait aucun doute que M. Rybolovlev a utilisé ses relations pour attirer Yves Bouvier à Monaco au prétexte de parachever le règlement d'un Rothko, et le faire tomber dans un guet-apens judiciaire - le Suisse a, en effet, été interpellé par la police bien renseignée, placé en garde à vue, mis en examen et libéré sous caution.

Le petit monde de la principauté

Faux, d'après Me Temime, qui estime que l'instruction ne tourne pas en faveur de son client, bien au contraire. Au passage, il s'étonne de ce que le téléphone d'une avocate ait pu être pillé par les enquêteurs. La validation de cette procédure fait l'objet d'un pourvoi devant la juridiction suprême monégasque: «Elle est contraire à la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et crée une grande insécurité juridique qui ne peut qu'inquiéter les résidents monégasques. Je suis certain que la cour de révision statuera dans le sens du droit et de ses principes», déclare l'avocat. Il s'étonne, en revanche, que le juge d'instruction n'ait pas ordonné d'expertise sur le BlackBerry d'Yves Bouvier: celui-ci a été effacé à distance pendant que son propriétaire était en garde à vue, et la justice n'a pas essayé d'en faire réapparaître le contenu.

«C'est sans doute difficile à croire, mais c'est un fait : les hommes les plus avertis peuvent, parfois, faire preuve de la plus grande naïveté»

Me Temime ne peut nier que sa consœur avait noué des contacts étroits avec des protagonistes du dossier. Mais à ses yeux, cette proximité est à replacer dans un «contexte local» particulier - comprendre: la principauté est un petit monde, tous se connaissent. «Ceci est indiscutablement maladroit, et relève d'instances déontologiques. La seule question qui importe, ajoute le pénaliste, est la suivante: y a-t-il eu des conséquences sur le traitement de l'affaire? La réponse est: aucune. Ou alors, au détriment de Dmitri Rybolovlev.»

Il est vrai que si Yves Bouvier a été inculpé, la procédure ne porte que sur les transactions concernant trois des 38 œuvres (le Vinci, un Modigliani et un Rothko), pour des raisons d'incompétence territoriale dont Me Temime ne s'explique pas qu'elles aient pu être retenues, en dépit de la connexité de l'ensemble des faits initialement visés. «Paradoxalement, avance l'avocat, la puissance supposée de Dmitri Rybolovlev l'a desservi de bout en bout. C'est sans doute difficile à croire, mais c'est un fait: les hommes les plus avertis peuvent, parfois, faire preuve de la plus grande naïveté ou en tout cas de la plus grande confiance.»

[recantodaeducacao]

Atirador mata um homem e fere uma mulher em frente a hospital de Paris

Um atirador não identificado matou um homem e feriu uma segurança mulher em frente a um hospital geriátrico particular de Paris nesta segunda-feira, 12. Ele fugiu de moto e ainda não foi capturado pela polícia. O prefeito do 16º distrito da capital, Francis Szpiner, afirmou à imprensa francesa que o incidente parece estar mais relacionado a um acerto de contas pessoal do que um ataque terrorista. Os arredores do centro médico, que também atua como posto de vacinação contra a Covid-19, foi isolado enquanto o crime é investigado.

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[sectionaeicese]

Vendredi matin 18 septembre, Jean-Marie Cambacérès président de la Section AEI a accueilli le Groupe la Poste au palais d’Iéna, au nom du Président du CESE Patrick Bernasconi, pour le lancement de la nouvelle série de timbres : « La terre et les hommes », en présence de Francis Szpiner maire du XVIème et des 3 artistes.

[antisemitism-eu]

France: Oddity, only the insane murder Jews (not terrorists)

Related: France's psychiatrization of radical Islamic anti-Semitic murder Via Israel News (Giulio Meotti):

A Muslim suspect rammed six police officers with his car in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. Two French officers sustained severe injuries. The French media and authorities had no doubt. “Terror returned to Paris”. “A voluntary act”. Nobody questioned the motive of the Algerian terrorist who tried to shed the policemen's blood. No one called him a lunatic. 

“What do you think, should this insane person be put in a psych ward while we contemplate the reasons for his actions?” the Crif, the central organization of French Jewry, posted on Facebook about the attacker in Levallois-Perret. It was a provocative but brave reference to the French establishment for its dealing with the slaying of a Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, by a Muslim man, Kobili Traore, who was sent to observation as per his insanity plea even though he has no record of mental illness. He shouted “Allah Akbar” while killing Halimi and throwing her from the window. The judiciary’s omission of the aggravated element of a hate crime caused by anti-Semitism, according with CRIF President Francis Kalifat, is a “cover up” of the anti-Semitic character of the crime. 

The French media only covered Halimi’s death two months after it happened. We have seen this mechanism before with another Halimi, Ilan, a beautiful Jewish boy kidnapped at the outskirts of Paris, held prisoner for 24 days, tortured to death just because he was a Jew. The brave French journalist Guy Millière wrote that “Ilan 's screams were heard by neighbors because they were especially atrocious: the killers disfigured the flesh of the young man, broke his fingers, burned him with acid and eventually with fire”. 

As in the case of Sarah Halimi, anti-Semitism was denied by the political authorities, the police and the media in the death of Ilan. As Francis Szpiner, the lawyer for the family of this boy, said, "the silence killed Ilan Halimi and justice has helped to perpetuate this conspiracy of silence, because the public was not told why he was killed”.

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[footballnewspapers]

PSG president Al-Khelaifi denies alleged corruption relating to World Athletics Championship

PSG president Al-Khelaifi denies alleged corruption relating to World Athletics Championship

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Nasser Al-Khelaifi’s lawyer has denied an allegation of corruption against his client relating to the hosting rights for the World Athletics Championships.

According to reports in France, the Paris Saint-Germain president is accused of validating an illicit payment of €3.1million to help Doha’s bid to stage the finals in 2017.

However, his lawyer, Francis Szpiner, has described…

[bestmarijuanaboutiques]

French Murder & Hate Crime Defendent Not to Stand Trial “on the basis of claim that he suffered from temporary insanity because of cannabis use.”

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French Murder & Hate Crime Defendent Not to Stand Trial “on the basis of claim that he suffered from temporary insanity because of cannabis use.”

Cannabis Now reports that this  controversial case in France, the admitted perpetrator in an anti-Semitic murder will not stand trial and will be going to a drug rehab facility instead of prison — on the basis of his claim that he suffered from temporary insanity because of cannabis use.

French Jewish leaders are, of course, aghast. But the decision also sets an alarming precedent in the fight for cannabis normalization, legitimizing the dubious notion of cannabis-induced psychosis and further entrenching the stigma. It’s certainly an irony that the once-laughable notion of reefer madness is being exploited to keep someone out of jail.

The Paris Court of Appeal on Dec. 19 ruled that Kobili Traore, who admitted to murdering his elderly Orthodox Jewish neighbor Sarah Halimi in April 2017 while shouting anti-Semitic slurs, will not face trial for the crime — due to mental incapacity caused by his use of cannabis. 

Traore had no history of mental illness, according to the Times of Israel, but a psychiatric report issued in September concluded that on the night of the murder, Traore suffered an “acute delirium” after heavy cannabis use. The report said he’d been smoking 15 joints a day, causing him to believe “a demon had possessed him” and to lose control of his actions. 

As Israeli website YNet reports, citing French media accounts, Traore will be sent to a drug rehabilitation facility under the ruling.

Alarmingly, of three medical experts called to testify in the case, only one argued that use of cannabis did not nullify Traore’s criminal liability. And according to an account on Jewish news site The Tablet, even this dissenting “expert,” Dr. Daniel Zagury, gave credence to the notion of cannabis delirium, asserting that “there is an alteration of discernment and not an abolition” from cannabis use.

French Jewish parliamentarian Meyer Habib assailed the ruling: “As a member of Parliament, I do not criticize court decisions, but as someone involved in the case from day one — I am simply shocked.” 

Habib also noted a double standard about cannabis use versus alcohol where criminal responsibility is concerned: “[T]his decision sends a clear message to all criminals: when one drinks and commits an offense it is aggravating circumstances, and when another partakes excessive amounts of drugs, it is a mitigating circumstance and he is not responsible for his actions.”

Francis Szpiner, a lawyer for the Halimi family, made a similar point in comments to the UK’s Jewish Chronicle, and warned that the case could set a dangerous precedent: “You’re saying that people can walk free after carrying out criminal action just because they were allegedly not aware of the effects of drugs or other substances? Will this also apply to drunk drivers who kill children on the road?”  

Read the full article at  https://cannabisnow.com/murderer-wont-stand-trial-because-cannabis-use-caused-psychosis-court-rules/

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M. Brion, consultant et ancien directeur général de la chaîne de télévision Equidia, avait attaqué Sandra Muller en diffamation, réclamant 50 000 euros de dommages et intérêts, 15 000 euros de frais de justice, la suppression du tweet divulguant son nom et des publications judiciaires. Tous deux devraient être présents mercredi après-midi devant la 17ème chambre civile du tribunal de Paris.

Contactée par l’AFP, Sandra Muller n’a pas souhaité s’exprimer avant l’audience. Dans un communiqué posté en janvier 2018 sur sa page Facebook, la journaliste basée aux Etats-Unis dénonçait des poursuites engagées « contre toute décence » par Eric Brion. « Voilà quelqu’un qui a reconnu dans un premier temps qu’il a eu une conduite non convenable, qui s’en est excusé, et qui brusquement décide d’attaquer en justice », a commenté l’un de ses avocats, Francis Szpiner.

Sandra Muller fait partie des « briseuses de silence » désignées par le magazine Time comme « Personnalités de l’année » 2017. Sur Twitter, elle a notamment reçu le soutien d’une des femmes attaquées par l’ancien député écologiste Denis Baupin pour l’avoir accusé de harcèlement et d’agressions. En avril, Denis Baupin avait perdu ce premier grand procès post-#MeToo en France, qui s’était mué en charge contre lui.

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De son côté, Eric Brion dénonce l’enchaînement des deux tweets le présentant « comme un prédateur sexuel », affirme Nicolas Bénoit, qui le défend avec Marie Burguburu. « C’est de la délation. A aucun moment il n’a la possibilité de se défendre, il est cloué au pilori », ajoute l’avocat. « Il a été détruit, c’est la victime expiatoire ».

En décembre 2017, dans le journal Le Monde, Eric Brion avait dit « réitérer ses excuses » à Mme Muller, reconnaissant avoir « tenu des propos déplacés » à son encontre « lors d’un cocktail arrosé très tard dans une soirée » - tous deux ne travaillant pas ensemble.

Il affirmait néanmoins refuser « l’amalgame » entre son « comportement et l’affaire concernant (le producteur hollywoodien) Harvey Weinstein, accusé de viols et de harcèlement sexuel par plusieurs femmes ».

Le Parisien Source: leparisien.fr