8 August 2002
A French court has ordered that the website of an ultra far-right group linked to the man who allegedly tried to assassinate President Jacques Chirac be shut down.
The ruling is the result of a complaint lodged by the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF) and the anti-racism group J'Accuse, which requested the ban on Radical Unity's website for violating French laws against the incitement of hatred and racial violence…
The judge said the site displayed evidence of anti-Semitism on a number of its pages…