Good News! French ex-National Front member jailed for chimpanzee image

[mylye2222]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28326179

A former local election candidate for France's far-right National Front (FN) party has been jailed for inciting racial hatred.

Anne-Sophie Leclere will serve nine months in jail for posting an image showing black justice minister Christiane Taubira beside a chimpanzee.

The party said that the jail sentence was "grotesque".

Leclere was an FN candidate for the 2014 local elections in Ardennes before being dropped by the party.

In a session on Tuesday, the French court in Cayenne - capital of the overseas region of French Guiana in South America - also ordered Leclere to pay a 50,000-euro ($67,800; £40,000) fine for posting the image.

The case caused a storm in France a year ago when Leclere posted the image on her Facebook page whilst running for local elections in the northeastern Ardennes region.

Leclere has said she will appeal against the verdict

Yes, it shows that some justice is still working to the good anyway. Partuculary refreshing, and soon following Sarkozy's police custody over corruption allegations. But don't worry folks. NF will sent its surrogates, and has already begun, on the mass corporate media, and the will show her as a martyr, and I really doubt she wont spend a second behind bars....

[allan01]

1. when are we ever going to get along together?

[Nye Bevan]

2. While I don't condone the racism, I prefer to have a First Amendment.

I don't like the authorities having the ability to imprison someone based on their speech. Should Helen Thomas have been prosecuted for her anti-Semitic remarks?

[dawg]

3. By all means, we should shun and demean racist idiots.

But I'm not in favor of throwing people in jail for things like this.

[LittleBlue]

4. Thank God for the First Amendment

Also, her name made me think of the queen from True Blood