The former candidate at the Paris town hall and “King of the Farins” had treated “slut” the mayor of Paris at a public meeting.
Le Monde with AFP
He had treated Anne Hidalgo of “slut”. The former candidate at the Paris town hall and “King of the Farins” Marcel Campion was sentenced on Friday, October 29 to 500 euros for public insult to the mayor of Paris. It will also have to pay a euro of damages, for moral injury, and 1,500 euros of procedure fees at M me hidalgo.
The Mayor of Paris had complained in 2019 following the publication of an article in the world reporting the words set out by Mr. Campion, 81, during a public meeting organized as part of his campaign Municipal:
“It’s down a slut. She told me,” I love the fairground. “She just tried two years later to destroy us completely. I always wonder why. (…) We must punish it.”
Excellent initially, the relations between M me Hidalgo and Mr Campion had deteriorated after the opening of a preliminary inquiry in October 2015, concerning the award of the location of The Great Wheel, Place de la Concorde. The Mayor of Paris had then ended nearly thirty-five years of contracts between the successive mayors of the capital and the Fouraine, suddenly deprived of its large wheel, but also from its Christmas market to Champs-Elysees.
In June 2019, the Court of Appeal of Paris had canceled the indictment of the city of Paris for “favoritism” and partially given Marcel Campion by canceling its prosecutions for “abuse of social goods”. In the meantime, Mr. Campion had become a fierce opposing from the socialist elected, to the point of presenting himself against his re-election.
A Euro of damage and interest
“The words pursued, which make use of a coarse and basic insult to degrade the person concerned, and to testify to him of contempt, especially since it belongs to the female gent, do not contain the Imputation of any specific facts and are undeniably insulting, “said the Tribunal. For the latter, “these offensive remarks were sent to Anne Hidalgo at the rate of his qualified quality since they were professed in response to the decisions she had taken in his capacity as mayor”. They “exceed the eligible limits of freedom of expression”.
“It is a satisfactory decision that reminds that one can not insult an elected of the Republic”, commented the lawyer of M me hidalgo, M e Sabrina Goldman. “It’s a reminder all the more important as it occurs in a daily media loss and outrage period,” added M e Goldman.