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...Muslims in France were no more amused than the ones in Denmark. (They consider any depiction of Mohammed to be blasphemy.) So three Islamic groups brought suit against Charlie Hebdo. Leconte's film follows the trial through recollections of witnesses and the legal teams as well as documenting the religious and political debates in the halls outside the courtroom. He focuses on the chronological suspense of the trial, and has the benefit of defense attorneys whose brilliance is as sharp as the magazine's. When the plaintiffs' lawyer argues that Islam is caricatured more unfairly than other religions, one attorney...
...much attention as Telma. Young, pretty, apparently good-hearted (she works for the Red Cross) and best of all unattached, Telma made perfect fodder for what the Spanish call "the pink press." When she showed up at the royal wedding looking lovely in a pale apricot suit and a broad-brimmed hat that would have done Lady Astor proud, the rags could barely contain their ecstasy...
...Apparently, it was all too much, especially once she gave birth to a daughter at the end of March. On April 1, Ortiz filed suit in a Toledo court, requesting a restraining order against 57 magazines, websites, and television shows. "The permanent siege that Telma Ortiz and her partner suffer 24 hours a day is unbearable," said her lawyer Fernando Garrido earlier this week. "We can't go along with the fact that Telma has to live her postpartum in hiding, in a hell like she is living now, just to avoid being photographed...
...media were predictably outraged. "She is trying to silence the media, almost by decree," complained royal watcher Jaime Peñafiel, in his weekly column for El Mundo newspaper, which was not included in the suit. "Who does she think...
...apparently she's somebody. The Toledo court took just two days to rule that, willingly or not, Telma is indeed a public figure and therefore not protected by a 1982 law that prohibits the publication of images of private individuals without their consent. "It was a very poorly formulated suit," says Peñafiel. "If she feels like her privacy has been invaded, she should sue the individuals responsible on criminal charges, not try to get 57 institutions - most of whom have treated her with exquisite respect - barred from taking her photo. The judge acted correctly; this is a victory...