Deputy Wins Libel Suit
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AN echo of the campaign for the election of a Deputy to the French Parliament was heard in an action for libel brought by the returned Deputy, Maurice Lenor mand, against Noumea’s (NC) evening paper France Australe, in August.
Subject of the action was an article printed by the paper during the campaign. It was a photo graphic copy of an article published in Paris during World War II by a prominent Vichyist bearing the name of Lenormand but not the same initials. Plaintiff said the paper intimated that he was the author, ivhich was completely un true.
Finding in his favour, the judge fined the paper 800,000 metro, francs and awarded Lenormand about the same amount in damages.