French Flag Subjected to Rude Act

July 27, 2010By Paris UpdateWhat's New Potpourri

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FRENCH FLAG SUBJECTED TO RUDE ACT

The French like to tease Americans about their obsession with their national flag, but a new law now makes it a crime to desecrate the French flag, whether in public or private, and to distribute images of such an act. Desecrating the flag during an officially sanctioned demonstration was already a crime. The new law was proposed after a photo of a man wiping his backside with the red, white and blue flag won a prize in a photo contest in Nice and was widely distributed on the Web.

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