Crack (illustration) -

Yasuyoshi Chiba afp.com

A stolen photo.

In 2018, a homeless man discovered his head in

Paris Match

.

The magazine devoted several pages to metro crack users and published a photo of this 48-year-old homeless man in the Marx-Dormoy station (18th arrondissement).

While his face was recognizable, he took the press company to court, reveals

the Parisian.

Initially, he did not necessarily want to recover the money, but that the image be removed, in particular from the website and the mobile application, specifies the daily.

But in 2019, he won against the weekly and obtained 10,000 euros in compensation for the damage suffered.

Daily penalties are also put in place for the weekly.

But the photo remains visible on the mobile site.

"It's an exemplary decision"

In its judgment, the first civil chamber of the court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) recalled that "everyone has, whatever their notoriety, their fortune, their present or future functions, the right to respect for their private life. and enjoys an exclusive right over its image allowing it to oppose its fixation […] without prior authorization, ”notes

Le Parisien. 

Thirty thousand additional euros were paid.

"It is an exemplary decision which strongly defends the right to image and to privacy of all, including those who live in poverty", congratulate the daily, Camille Auvergnas and Martin Vettes, both homeless advocates.

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