Man who lit cigarette from French war memorial flame faces legal action
Man who lit cigarette from French war memorial flame faces legal action
Man who lit cigarette from French war memorial flame faces legal action
A French minister has said she is taking legal action against an unidentified man who was filmed lighting a cigarette from a memorial flame at a major Paris war monument.
The video of a man stooping to light a cigarette from the fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, before walking calmly away watched by tourists, caused indignation when it was widely shared on social media.
“I am filing a case immediately with the Paris state prosecutors so that this man will be found and sanctions imposed to make an example of him,” Patricia Miralles, the minister for veterans and remembrance, wrote on X.
What law does it actually break though? And no matter what, who exactly did his action hurt? What got damaged?
Feelings got hurt.
Yeah, while I agree that it is a shitty thing to do, if there is a law against that, I would be surprised.
Or maybe the normal rubber band stuff like in Germany: Erregung öffentlichen Ärgernisses, which translate to raising public anger. Which means anything that is majorally frowned upon but not otherwise already against the law, but enough people (of the right sort) are complaining.