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Sarkozy, Bruni Win Damages From RyanAir

Reuters Via NYT   |   February 6, 2008 07:42 AM


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A French court ordered the budget airline Ryanair on Tuesday to pay damages to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, left, for using their picture in an advertisement but the sum was less than Ms. Bruni had sought. The court ordered Ryanair to pay symbolic damages of 1 euro to Mr. Sarkozy and 60,000 euros ($88,870) to his wife. Ms. Bruni had been seeking damages of 500,000 euros. The pair's lawyer said she planned to give the money to a charity providing food for the poor. Mr. Sarkozy and Ms. Bruni sued Ryanair, which is based in Ireland, over an ad for low-price tickets published last week in the Parisien newspaper.

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- oceanlover I'm a Fan of oceanlover 4 fans permalink

Please. What a bunch of French BS. So now, Ryanair, (which supplies incredibly low air fares to customers worldwide,) has to pay Bruni damages? Spare us all please. Bruni is independently wealthy to begin with. If she wants to donate $ to the poor, more power to her. She should do it on her own dime and not at the expense of everyone else over this nonsense. She deserves only the one Euro Sarkozy is getting. What pandering this is. She's a publicity hound in every other instance why is this any different? This just impacts Ryanair's ability to provide inexpensive airfair to everyone else. Get these jokers out of office.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 PM on 02/06/2008

The fact that the judge didn't throw this out of court kind of says something...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 02/06/2008
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