Missed It: Sine/Licra Trial Begins

I totally missed this yesterday, but the trial of cartoonist Maurice Sinet on charges of inciting racial hatred for a non-comics piece he put in Charlie Hebdo has begun in Lyon. After the publication and initial criticism, Sinet was subsequently dismissed by the magazine, started a satirical magazine of his own, was brought up on these charges, sued the journalist who originally reported on the matter for another, undisclosed reason. The charges were brought by the France-based LICRA group, an acronym roughly translated into the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism. The piece in question featured the son of the French president, whom I believe -- I'm not up on my French political social news -- is dating the daughter of a prominent Jewish family. To say Sine has aggressively fought both the general, public charge of anti-Semitism and apologizing in any way for the original article may be understating things.
 
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