Sine Cites Web Site Death Threat In Increasingly Publicized Sarkozy Row

Pretty much it's all in the headline on this one: the cartoonist Sine has apparently filed a complaint with the police against a Jewish Defence League web site that he believes constitutes a death threat.

The general controversy -- which has blown up again in the past day or so after the New York Times picked it up for English-language wire service dissemination -- is about a column the 79-year-old cartoonist (full name: Maurice Sinet) wrote for Charlie Hebdo about the son of President Nicolas Sarkozy being engaged to the daughter of Jewish retail-chain owners. Many thought the column anti-Semitic. Sine was asked to apologize, which led him to give maybe the quote of the decade by responding, "I'd rather cut my balls off." He was fired, and legal action on that front is forthcoming. And so it goes.
 
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