Maurice “Siné” Sinet Wins 40,000 Euro Judgment Against Charlie Hebdo

According to an article at the French-language industry clearinghouse ActuaBD.com, Maurice Sinet, a cartoonist and social satirist who since the early 1950s and especially the 1960s has dragged French society over the coals for various beatings and recriminations as Siné, has won an 40,000 euro judgment against the publication Charlie Hebdo for wrongful termination. Sinet had been let go by the magazine in 2008 after Editor Philippe Val demanded an apology for articles about Jean Sarkozy criticized in the French media as anti-Semitic. Sinet responded with an underrated classic in the long history of take this job and shove it rhetoric, declaring that he would rather cut off his own balls than to make such an apology. The firing, a massive amount of public bitchery and wild internet commentary, and Siné setting up house elsewhere all followed that declaration. As the article notes, there has been a flurry of lawsuits between the principals involved in this decision, and one such lawsuit directed by Sinet at the magazine in what sounds like a closely-related complaint has yet to move into the decision phase.

The amount of money involved in the judgment is approximately $53,000 USD.
 
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