Al-Dura Trial: Exclusive Reaction From the Paris Courtroom

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[ml/nj]

Video of interviews outside French courtroom following hearing/trial regarding France-2's coverage of al-Dura "shooting"

[Hans]

Many thanks, this is wonderful reporting.
What a wretched creature the left is. Must
make our own media proud of what they have become.

[SJackson]

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[purpleraine]

I may be a little slow. Could some one summarize what this is about or provide a link to information.

[ml/nj]

Could some one summarize what this is about or provide a link to information.

Well, it depends upon what you already know. Do you know who Muhammed al-Dura is? He's the boy in the picture below.

If you don't you might read Who caused the televised death of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura? Note that the title assumes that the boy is dead, which is almost certainly not true, IMHO. There are good videos from The Second Draft, particularly their "Pallywood" video.

If you already know all that, maybe you are confused about what the courtroom case is about. Perhaps this excerpt from a BBC report from Nov. 8 will help:

Philippe Karsenty, a French financial analyst who has studied the killing, accuses the channel which first aired the footage, France 2, its correspondent Charles Enderlin and the Palestinian cameraman who filmed the incident of being complicit in staging the killing.

Mr Karsenty, who also runs a media watchdog group, was sued by the channel and correspondent. In 2006 a French court found that he had defamed them.

But now Mr Karsenty is appealing against the decision, and the court hearing the case has requested that France 2 release the unedited footage of the death.

The footage is authentic," he told the BBC News website. "This is a campaign designed to harass foreign correspondents and call into question all the footage shot in the occupied Palestinian territories."

Enderlin confirmed that France 2 would show the 18 minutes of unedited footage filmed that day to the French court.

From the video that I linked to it appears that Enderlin is a LIAR. The people who comment would seem to indicate that maybe Rosemary Woods, II, prepared the "unedited footage" for the court.

ML/NJ

[purpleraine]

Thanx. Yes, I remember the photo, but didn’t know about this case.

[dervish]

Thanks for posting. I especially liked seeing the Karsenty interview. Good on him for taking on those sleezoids.