Cour de cassation - 03.07.1987
Case- Case number
- n. ° 86-93.434
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people on the grounds of their origin or their membership or non-membership of a particular ethnic group, nation, race or religion (Provocation à la discrimination, à la haine, à la violence à l'égard d'un groupe de personnes à raison de leur origine, de leur appartenance ou de leur non appartenance à une ethnie, une nation, une race ou une religion déterminée) – The Cour de cassation rejected the appeal lodged against the judgment of the Court of Appeal acquitting the accused - The judges of the Court of Appeal noted that there was no evidence in the case in point that the offending remarks "there is a power that does not accept integration in France... and for whom the interests of Judaism are superior to those of French society ... the international assassination group, the communist international ... was composed essentially of Jews", even if made in a place accessible to the public, were voluntarily addressed by their author to persons other than his interlocutors, nor were they made with the intention that they should be made public.
Art. 23, 24 al. 5 Loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse; Art. 593 Code de procédure pénale
- Name of Court
- Cour de cassation - Chambre criminelle
- Date of decision
- Jul 3, 1987
- Subjects
- Discrimination
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Year
- 1987
- Generated ID
- RNK1300-8896
- Geolocation
Latitude: 48.855133056640625
Longitude: 2.345714807510376
- Geolocation
- Existing
- Link
- legifrance