Placid Fined 500 Euros For Cartoon

According to a public letter published by ActuaBD.com and put into context by Didier Pasamonik, the cartoonist Placid has been fined 500 Euros dating from a complaint filed by a politician against a 2001 cartoon on the cover of the book Vos Papiers. The cover featured a police character with a pig's snout. Apparently, and I'm always happy for someone to correct me on anything in these stumble-throughs, the author and the publisher were fined as well.

In the letter, Placid describes that he defended himself by presenting multiple examples of visual satire from a variety of respected sources, use of the pig's nose in his own work in a variety of places, and sympathetic art he's done about the police. He also mentions that the fine is problematic because cartoonists are generally poor.

The story becomes more interesting in that the Charlie-Hebdo case, which many saw as a positive sign and a rallying point for Free Speech causes in France, saw a political figure come down on the side of satire's value. This could be seen as a step back, or a double-standard, or even reinforcement for the point that the support Nicolas Sarkozy afforded Charlie-Hebdo really was specific to ongoing presidential politics.
 
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