Cour de cassation - 08.10.1991
Case- Case number
- N° 90-83.336
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Defamation and incitement to racial discrimination (Diffamation et de provocation à la discrimination raciale) – The Court of Cassation dismisses the appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal which convicted a person of public defamation of 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 - The person convicted had attributed the exploitation of the Holocaust legend to American Jews - He had therefore targeted a group of people on the grounds of their membership of a particular religion.
Art. 32 al. 2 Loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse.
- Name of Court
- Cour de cassation - Chambre criminelle
- Date of decision
- Oct 8, 1991
- Subjects
- Hate Speech and Incitement
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Year
- 1991
- Generated ID
- YZJ8545-6926
- Geolocation
Latitude: 48.855133056640625
Longitude: 2.345714807510376
- Geolocation
- Existing
- Link
- legifrance
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