re: #58 ryannon
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity Dept.
PARIS - A COURT convicted France’s Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux on Friday of making a racial insult about a young man of Arab origin.
The Paris court fined Mr Hortefeux 750 euros (S$1,276) and ordered him to pay 2,000 euros in damages for comments he made last September about a young activist of the ruling right-wing UMP party of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
‘When there’s one, it’s OK. It’s when there are a lot of them that there are problems,’ Mr Hortefeux, 52, said in a filmed encounter in September. He was apparently referring to a young man of Algerian parentage - one of France’s large community of north African origin - with whom he was getting ready to pose for a photo.
SNIP
I’ll bet his popularity numbers increase.