Youth in France jailed for insulting cops on Facebook...

Rights campaigners have condemned a French court for handing down Friday a three-month jail term to a teenager who insulted France’s paramilitary gendarmes on his Facebook page.

The 19-year-old man posted the remarks after having been pulled over in January by police in a traffic check and forced to continue his journey on foot, said prosecutors at the court in Brest, Brittany, in northwest France.

He singled out for his insults the local gendarmes at Faou, in Brittany, but the officers came upon the remarks, which had been online for three months. More...

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