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12-23-2010, 03:17 PM
Man fined For Insulting French flag
"Those Damn Algerian Wetbacks !"
A court in the south of France has fined an Algerian man 750 euros (£637; $984) for insulting the national flag - the first penalty under a new decree.
Abderrahmane Saidi, 26, was at a local government office on Tuesday when he grabbed a flag and snapped the pole in two during a row with a clerk.
A July decree made insulting the tricolour an offence punishable by a fine of up to 1,500 euros.
The rule was triggered by a photo of a man wiping his bottom with the flag. Saidi was sentenced by a court in Nice. It...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12069307
"Those Damn Algerian Wetbacks !"
A court in the south of France has fined an Algerian man 750 euros (£637; $984) for insulting the national flag - the first penalty under a new decree.
Abderrahmane Saidi, 26, was at a local government office on Tuesday when he grabbed a flag and snapped the pole in two during a row with a clerk.
A July decree made insulting the tricolour an offence punishable by a fine of up to 1,500 euros.
The rule was triggered by a photo of a man wiping his bottom with the flag. Saidi was sentenced by a court in Nice. It...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12069307