France has been ordered to release the tapes. These are the tapes of the evil joooz killing the poor helpless Palestinian boy in a shootout with brave and noble Palestinian freedom fighters.
That’s what the published tape shows. But the full unedited footage? That’s been hidden from public view.
Philippe Karsenty, director of the media watchdog group Media-Ratings, was convicted of slander by a French court for suggesting that the raw tapes showed something different. He said that they real tapes showed a staged event and that the boy was not killed on tape.
If you remember the fauxtography scandal during the Lebanon war, it seems plausible.
Here’s the report from Pajamas Media:
The French Appellate court trial of Phillippe Karsenty in the matter of Mohammed Al Dura – the epochal case of the Palestinian boy allegedly shot by Israeli troops in 2000 – took a huge turn today. Photos of the boy have been accused of being the birth of fauxtography.
Appellate Court Presiding judge Laurence Trébucq has demanded that France 2 hand over the 27-minutes of raw footage shot on the afternoon of September 30, 2000 by Talal Abu Rahmeh. France 2 lawyer Maïtre Bénédicte Amblard tried to convince the judge that the request was not appropriate, relevant, necessary or even advisable. But the judge wants to see the outtakes with her own eyes. This is the first time the French court has made such a demand that would be normal in the US system. The court will now be able to determine if the Al Dura shooting and tape was a fake, as many have alleged.
Maître Amblard was not able to reach her clients to confirm availability of the footage. Today’s hearing was adjourned. The next hearing is scheduled on November 14th… to view the raw footage.
