(France24) A French court on Wednesday ordered Google to remove links to nine indecent images of former Formula One boss Max Mosley in a landmark case described by the search engine as “a troubling ruling with serious consequences for free expression”.
A French court ordered search giant Google on Wednesday to block its search engine in France from providing links to images of Max Mosley at a sex party with prostitutes, five years after the ex-Formula One chief sued the UK newspaper that published them.
The decision by the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris referred to images of Mosley published in 2008 by now-defunct British tabloid The News of the World. The pictures showed Mosley, 73, being whipped and tied up by five prostitutes dressed in German-style military uniforms, in a scene described by the paper as “a sick Nazi orgy”.
Mosley admitted to taking part in sadomasochistic activity with the five prostitutes – and paying them £2,500 ($4,000) – but denied the orgy was Nazi-themed. In 2008 he successfully sued the paper for breach of privacy, winning £60,000 ($90,000) in damages.
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