Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 03/05/2026 11:14:47 PM PST by Morgana
A father who was ordered to pay compensation to a cyclist for filming him as he knocked over his young daughter has finally won his legal battle.
The footage was filmed and posted to social media by five-year-old Neia's dad, Patrick Mpasa, during their family walk in a nature reserve in Baraque Michel, Belgium, on Christmas Day, 2020.
The cyclist, who was only identified as Jacques D, was originally taken to court in Verviers for kneeing the little girl, only to be given a suspended sentence because he had been criticised enough on social media.
Jacques then sued Mr Mpasa for defamation, because the backlash the video received resulted in him feeling so threatened by the public that he was scared to leave his own house.
In April 2023, the child's father was ordered to pay the cyclist 4,500 euros in compensation.
But now, after a lengthy appeal, a court in Liege has ruled out the original decision in favour of Jacques D, who is president of a local cycling club.
Lawyer Jacques Englebert, who represented Mr Mpasa, told the Daily Mail: 'In essence, the court said that posting the video was a freedom of expression and it was not a crime, so the original ruling was overturned.
'The court said that by uploading the clip, the father had contributed to the public debate on cyclists and pedestrians, and it was not an issue.'
Mr Englebert added: 'The cyclist had argued that by uploading the video, he had been identified, and the initial reports said he was between forty and fifty years old when he was in fact well over sixty years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
All about him. No concern he did it and knocked the young girl down. He should have to pay the girl for his bullish and callousness.
I resent those bicyclists.
Yup! Patience is a virtue, in situations like this. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
In time, justice would be meted out.
This is what happens when you do not take care of bidness on the spot.
Dear Jacques needed a trimming right there and a totally destroyed bicycle with massively bent wheels.
Euroweenies.
There is a fine line between Psychopaths and Cycle Paths.
So if I murder someone, and post a video of the murder on social media, and suffer a lot of "backlash," my sentence will be reduced?!
Regards,
Was that a walking path, a bicycle path or both?
I’m hoping you would have enough sense to get your kid out of the way of the cyclist.
“... in favour of Jacques D, who is president of a local cycling club.”
Must be a member of Critical (M)ass: Euro-peon Chapter.
the US does not have a monopoly on retarded or bent judges
people on a bike path, or bike on a pedestrian path? either way, keep an eye on your kid.
My experience is that bicyclists become complete a-holes once they put on those faggy little shorts.
The incident involving five-year-old Neia and the cyclist took place on Christmas Day 2020 in the High Fens (Hautes Fagnes), a nature reserve in the Liège Province of eastern Belgium.
The incident occurred on a snowy walking path within the nature reserve. It was not a designated bicycle path.
“I’m hoping you would have enough sense to get your kid out of the way of the cyclist.”
I saw the video. I don’t know what language the father was speaking but it appears he was trying to warn his child before the biker drove up on the child. I’m judging this by the tone of his voice. The biker came up on the child so fast there was really no time to pull the kid out of the way.
Jacques then sued Mr Mpasa for defamation, because the backlash the video received resulted in him feeling so threatened by the public.
Case need to be dropped Mr Mpasa was doing a public service by warning the public to be on the look out for the problem.
They sure do.
Why want to know? Either way how could it possibly justify kneeing A five-year-old?
There’s a widespread view on cycling forums that the kneeing was the inadvertent by-product of the rider trying to retain balance after swerving into deeper snow, at barely more than walking pace, to avoid the pedestrians. It doesn’t convincingly look deliberate - more of a twitch than a poke. If you’re using clip-in pedals, you do make a movement of that kind if you’re unclipping prior to putting your foot on the ground.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.