Cour de cassation - 18.03.1999
Case- Case number
- 97-13.857
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Distribution, by direct sale or mail order, of Nazi or Vichy military items and trivialisation of nazism and antisemitism (Diffusion, par vente directe ou vente par correspondance, d'articles militaires nazis ou vichyste banalisation du nazisme et de l'antisémitisme) – The Court of Cassation overturned a decision by the Court of Appeal of Paris – The case involved the Union des étudiants juifs de France (Union of Jewish Students of France) appealing against a merchant, accused of selling Nazi and Vichy military items – The Court of Appeal had rejected the request, stating that the sale was not prohibited and could be conducted within constitutional freedoms – The Court of Cassation annulled this decision, citing that the appeal had raised valid concerns about trivializing Nazism and antisemitism – The case was remanded to the Court of Appeal of Versailles.
Art. 455 Code de procédure civile.
- Name of Court
- Cour de Cassation, Chambre civile 2
- Date of decision
- Mar 18, 1999
- Subjects
- Compensation
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Year
- 1999
- Generated ID
- WQL0102-5226
- Geolocation
Latitude: 48.855133056640625
Longitude: 2.345714807510376
- Geolocation
- Existing
- Link
- legifrance