Paris Mayor to sue Fox News over Muslim claims
The mayor of Paris has said she will sue Fox News for its inaccurate reporting about the city following the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The US network claimed there were “no-go areas” in the French capital where police and non-Muslims refused to go.
Anne Hidalgo said the people of Paris had been “insulted” and the city’s image had been “damaged”.
The network has since apologised for making “regrettable errors” on air regarding the Muslim population.
Ms Hidalgo told CNN: “When we’re insulted and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue. I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed.
“The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honour of Paris has been prejudiced.”
Fox has also apologised for comments by so-called “terror expert” Steven Emerson, who claimed Birmingham, England was “totally Muslim” and ruled by Sharia law.
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro subsequently said Emerson had “made a serious factual error that we wrongly let stand unchallenged and uncorrected”.
In fact, 80% of Birmingham’s population is non-Muslim.
British Prime Minister David Cameron responded by calling Emerson “a complete idiot”. »»» BBC News
ยป 21 January 2015
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