“No-go areas”: the Paris City Council approves the complaint against Fox … – Liberation

"No-go areas": the Paris City Council approves the complaint against Fox … – Liberation

The Paris City Council gave the green light Wednesday in a defamation of the Town Hall of Paris, after the broadcast on Fox News to comment that the city would host the “no-go areas “prohibited areas where Sharia law apply.

The mayor of Paris will file a complaint against X before the High Court of Paris.

If the resolution authorizing the complaint was approved by the elected PS, PCF, EELV, PRG, right and center abstained.

“If I dared, I would say (that) all this, in a formulation well French, + there is not enough to make a cheese +, “said the group’s president Eric Azière UDI-modem, after listing the many” approximations “that could engage Fox News and other US media about France, but also recently Britain.

“This is why we (…) against your criminal obstinacy, because it is useless to pursue defamation a real audio-visual bloopers, which is neither the first nor the last, “he added.

President of the UMP group in the Council of Paris, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet emphasized character “scandalous, malicious and frankly a bit ridiculous” of the “Fox News report,” while saying “doubtful” in respect of the complaint of Mrs. Hidalgo, who “looks more like a personal communication operation that ‘a useful operation to the Parisians. “

The former minister said it would be better to” pay a visit to Paris “to Fox News journalists,

and said his group was ready for the “take him for a night out” in the disputed areas to make “change their mind”.

“What is at issue here is not fun, things that fall under derision or misplaced humor, it’s a lie, “replied Anne Hidalgo.

” I received a lot of encouragement to Americans that indeed this type of coarse maneuvers cease. I do not amuse me, and I will not go to night bars with Fox News journalists, even the friendliest. I do not accept that insult our city and its people, “she added.

In the aftermath of the attack that grieving Charlie Hebdo and in the days that followed, the conservative channel had repeatedly explained, in support card, there was in Paris “no-go areas” beyond the laws of the Republic. Subsequently, Fox News has apologized, admitting that it was “regrettable errors”.

AFP