Judge bans ‘obscene’ Nice attack images from Paris Match website

Magazine says images are meant to inform public and ensure victims not forgotten

People look at flowers placed on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, at the scene of the Bastille Day  truck attack in July last year. File photograph: Claude Paris/AP Photo

People look at flowers placed on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, at the scene of the Bastille Day truck attack in July last year. File photograph: Claude Paris/AP Photo

A French court on Thursday said Paris Match’s publication of graphic pictures of the Bastille day attack in Nice a year ago was “obscene” and barred it from putting them on its website, but did not heed calls to remove the magazine from news stands.

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