On October 28, the website of the American television channel ran a story on a woman found dead in a frozen cryotherapy chamber … with a photo where French footballer enters this device, used by top athletes for recovery. The cliché has since disappeared from the site.
Ribery “never gave his permission and consent to the use of this photograph and therefore its image associated with this release, wrote his lawyer Carlo Alberto Brusa in a letter sent Thursday to CNN. This illegal association, in total violation of the rights on the attributes of personality and image rights, is a fault that engages your responsibility and thus requires you to repair all the damages suffered by Mr. Franck Ribery and family following publication of this morbid and the reactions it generated among the public. “
” CNN has knowingly used “
Mail is “an attempt to solution prior to litigation”, otherwise the player from Bayern Munich seize the French courts’ order to see repair the damages whose amount can not be less than the sum of one million five hundred thousand US dollars, “said the message.
” Franck Ribery found this unacceptable, especially to illustrate the passing of a dead woman by making cryotherapy, said his lawyer told AFP. When her family saw this, she was shocked. The image was used for commercial purposes by CNN, and using the image of Ribery, she earned money. It’s a scoundrel behavior because CNN has a legal department and used it knowingly. When I handled the case in Zahia affair, CNN was present at the courthouse, spoke of the trial and therefore knows who Ribery. “
As for the sum requested, Mr. Brusa esteem “proportionate”, evoking the famous case of “the woman who was burnt with a coffee” in the US in 1992 and who obtained for it a large sum in compensation. “The best way out is negotiation, the trial is always the last step in a process,” he added, however,
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