Sine LICRA Hearing In Lyon Today?

I think this may be the day that the cartoonist Maurice "Sine" Sinet, formerly of Charlie Hebdo, is being brought in front of a tribunal in Lyon by the Ligue Contre le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme for comments in a July 2 editorial about the son of the French President converting to Judaism in order to facilitate marriage with his girlfriend. Sine was subsequently fired from Charlie Hebdo and his story has become a bit of an international affair due to a combination of historical anti-Semitism in France, the presence of the Sarkozy family at the center of the story, and the irony from Charlie Hebdo winning a case brought against it based on their reaction to the Danish Muhammed caricatures. This article confuses me a bit because it talks about two cartoons: one I thought was an essay and one I'd never heard of before.
 
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