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Depiction of Macron as Hitler tests France's tolerance for satire
reuters ^ | July 30, 2021 | Manuel AusloosMichel Rose

Posted on 07/31/2021 6:28:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Michel-Ange Flori, owner of a French street advertising business, decided to use some of his billboards for what he called an exercise in political satire: posting a picture showing President Emmanuel Macron dressed like Adolf Hitler.

Macron's personal lawyers and his party have now filed legal complaints alleging that the depictions were a public insult, and Flori said he has been contacted by police acting on the complaint.

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...Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, originally in 2006, that most Muslims view as blasphemous. The French state defended the magazine's right to publish.

"We will not give up on cartoons and drawings, even if others back down," Macron said on Oct. 21 last year...

Flori put up the Macron billboards in response to a law adopted by parliament this month barring people from some public venues unless they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or can show a fresh negative test.

Some of Macron's opponents say the rules trample on civil liberties and accuse the president of acting like a dictator...

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; eussr; fourthreich; france; macron

1 posted on 07/31/2021 6:28:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Hey, if the totalitarian fits,....

Would he rather be depicted doing the Mussolini dance?


2 posted on 07/31/2021 6:31:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

It is increasing his standing with the imports. The muzzies liked Hitler.


3 posted on 07/31/2021 6:41:02 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: BenLurkin

4 posted on 07/31/2021 6:48:35 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: BenLurkin
Tee-hee!

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5 posted on 07/31/2021 6:48:39 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: bagster

3 seconds!

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6 posted on 07/31/2021 6:49:18 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI
Ha. 4 seconds, slacker.


7 posted on 07/31/2021 6:50:16 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: BenLurkin

The Establishment in France wants to discredit and destroy the protests against the vaccine passport, so they get upset about the Nazi analogies.


8 posted on 07/31/2021 6:50:41 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: TLI
3 seconds...4 seconds...time works different in France.

The French are a funny race
they fight with their feet
and ---- with their face.


9 posted on 07/31/2021 6:52:42 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: BenLurkin

Macaroni is a wimp. He wouldn’t last a day over here.


10 posted on 07/31/2021 7:09:42 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: BenLurkin

Macron’s personal lawyers and his party have now filed legal complaints alleging that the depictions were a public insult, and Flori said he has been contacted by police acting on the complaint.

Thus proving the point.


11 posted on 07/31/2021 7:11:36 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: bagster

They could have portrayed him as Petain or Laval.


12 posted on 07/31/2021 7:13:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Hitler as DeGaulle. Paris 1968 riots. I think the French invented the idea that "Everyone I don't like is Hitler".

13 posted on 07/31/2021 7:13:58 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: BenLurkin

The real Hitler would have had Frenchy macron’s skin flayed from his body with a full knife.

The real macron, has lawyers...

Nuff said.


14 posted on 07/31/2021 7:40:25 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: pacificus

Dull knife...


15 posted on 07/31/2021 7:40:53 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: TLI

i have to be critical of this

its solid artwork

not museum quality, but that’s not what they were going for


16 posted on 07/31/2021 8:54:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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