A French court acquitted three activists charged with discrimination and hate crimes for calling for a boycott of Israeli products.
The correctional court in Perpignan, in southwestern France, last week upheld a recommendation from prosecutors that the activists be found not guilty for the boycott call made in 2010, the France 3 television station reported.
The activists — Bernard Cholet, Jeanne Rousseau and Yamina Tadjeur — called for the boycott during a protest at a shopping center in Perpignan and were charged following a complaint from the BNVCA anti-Semitism group.
The group to which the activists belong, Collectif 66 Peace and Justice in Palestine, supports a blanket boycott of all Israeli products as well as a “boycott only of products from Israeli colonies [in the West Bank],” according to a statement from 2011.
Prosecutors had said that even if the call were discriminatory, there was no evidence it was an incitement to hatred or violence, as stated in the original indictment.
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The trial was suspended and resumed five times, four times because of appeals by the defendants that their prosecution was anti-constitutional.
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