Richard Landes translated into English the judge’s ruling in the case of France2 and Charles Enderlin vs. Philippe Karsenty:
It was undeniably legitimate for Philippe Karsenty to question an event that had such a great media impact throughout the world and to criticize Charles Enderlin’s “under fire” commentary of the images broadcast by France 2 on September 30, 2000. By adopting as his own the theory that Mohamed Al Dura’s death in his father’s arms was staged for propaganda purposes, without keeping any professional distance, nor critically considering his own sources, Karsenty failed to meet the requirement of reliability expected from a professional in the field of information.
By claiming four years after the fact that he held proof of the accusations he had made, while none of it was new, most of it was unreliable, and all of it derived from the same isolated source, to which no official Israeli authority had ever granted the slightest consideration, and by claiming, based on all this, that there had been a “fraud,” a “masquerade,” a “hoax,” the defendant abandoned the most elementary sense of caution.
Read the full ruling at Landes’ blog, The Augean Stables.
