The league is demanding the halt of an “anti-Muslim” poster campaign featuring the FNJ’s “NO to Islamism” poster. The court’s decision will be made public on Monday early afternoon.
The poster was distributed by the FN’s youth movement in the PACA region, then on its website. It is now visible throughout France.
This poster depicts a woman in a burqa in front of a map of France covered with an Algerian flag and half a dozen minarets.
It has already been the subject of a complaint for intellectual property infringement. The Swiss designer of the poster, originally intended for the “yes” in the anti-minaret referendum, claimed he was plagiarized and filed a complaint.
FN’s lawyer, Mr. Wallerand de Saint-Just, cites freedom of expression. He explains that “this poster in no way attacks Islam and Muslims but Islamists.”
Lirca’s lawyer, Mr. Michel Pezet, meanwhile, denounces “a flagrantly unlawful disturbance to public order.” For him, the poster “stigmatizes a community. These are caricatures that say people cannot live together.”
After the hearing, Jean-Marie Le Pen expressed surprise at his summons. He stated, “this poster is clear: it denounces Islamism and not Islam (…) and the importation of this Islamism.”
