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bassexpander
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 Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: French couple busted making porn at war memorial |
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This is a Canadian war memorial?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2464790/Porn-film-made-at-First-World-War-memorial.html
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Pornography has become the latest threat to graves and memorials on the First World War battlefields of northern France.
While common acts of desecration have in the past included vandalism and graffiti, indecent photographs and videos are increasingly being shot around the magnificent structures built during the post-war years to remember the fallen.
The latest incident saw a French couple given a four-month suspended prison sentence for making a pornographic video at the Vimy Ridge memorial near Arras.
After being found guilty of exhibitionism, they were fined �400 each and ordered to pay a symbolic one euro (80 pence) in damages to Canada, which lost 60,000 men in the Great War.
Many Canadians perished in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, in April 1917, when four members of the Canadian Corps received Victoria Crosses.
Despite the courageous deeds and sacrifice honoured by the Vimy Memorial, the couple are believed to have stripped naked and performed sex acts beside the soaring stone structure.
They then posted the video on a website, invited people to pay to watch it.
Their punishment came just six months after another couple were fined for taking nude photographs of themselves in the same place.
In the latest case, heard at Arras criminal court, involving the married couple, who are in their 30s, lawyers expressed concern at the gradual increase in such incidents at the memorial.
The prosecutor, Elise Bozzolo, said: "The memorial has been known for a long time as a place where exhibitionism and voyeurism is common."
Police who investigated the case said similar incidents were regularly reported at other memorial and military graveyards.
"It is a problem which appears to be getting worse - people appear to get a perverse pleasure out of this behaviour," said a police spokesman in Arras.
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial took eleven years to build and was unveiled by King Edward VIII in front of 50,000 veterans and their families in 1936.
The battlefield park which surrounds it was granted in perpetuity to Canada in 1922. The site now draws half a million visitors a year.
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captain kirk
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Juregen
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| If this would only lead to more women getting pregnant, I wouldn't see it as a problem. |
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sillywilly
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| At least it's better than what happened a couple of years ago in Ottawa, when that kid took a squirt on the war memorial. |
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Underwaterbob
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Like anyone who watches porn really cares what the backdrop is. |
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OneWayTraffic
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Like anyone who watches porn really cares what the backdrop is. |
I watch it for the fine architecture! |
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DrunkenMaster
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, the French. |
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