Couple sentenced over WWI memorial porn video
Posted
A French couple have been given a four-month suspended prison sentence and made to pay one euro in damages to the Canadian state for making a porn video at a World War I memorial, officials said.
The verdict came just six months after another couple were fined for taking nude photographs of themselves at the same memorial at Vimy in northern France, which pays tribute to the 60,000 Canadians who died in the Great War.
In the latest ruling by a court in the town of Arras, the married couple in their 30s, who put the video on a paying website, were also fined 500 euros each after they were found guilty of exhibitionism.
The symbolic one euro in damages was ordered because the Canadian state was a civil plaintiff in the case.
"The memorial has been known for a long time as a place where exhibitionism and voyeurism is common," prosecutor Elise Bozzolo said.
The memorial, two huge pylons that can be seen for miles around, was created in memory of the April 1917 battle of Vimy Ridge, a costly victory for Canada which helped shape the former British colony's national identity and now draws around half a million visitors each year.
- AFP
