French students sentenced for anti-Chinese Covid-19 Twitter posts
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Four young adults in France have been found guilty of "public insult of racist nature and incitement to commit a crime" by a Paris court for publishing anti-Asian tweets blaming Chinese people for the spread of coronavirus.
The four students, aged 19-24, were sentenced to paying back the plaintiffs' lawyer fees and around €1,000 in damages and interests, the Paris prosecutor's office told CNN. A fifth individual involved in the case was found not guilty, the prosecutor's office added. Soc Lam, a lawyer for the Association of Young Chinese People in France and one of the plaintiffs in the case, told CNN on Wednesday that the trial had "brought the public and the judges' attention on this phenomenon, so that those messages of hate stop."More Related News