FRANCE: A Paris appeals court has fined three photographers €1 each for invasion of privacy for taking pictures of Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed on the night of their fatal 1997 car crash.
Jacques Langevin, Christian Martinez and Fabrice Chassery were acquitted of the invasion of privacy charge in 2003 after judges said a crashed vehicle on a public highway is not a private area.
But France's highest court disagreed in a ruling last April and sent the case to the Paris appeals court for review. The appeals court fined them the symbolic €1 sum in a ruling on Friday, which was announced yesterday.
The court also ordered them to pay for the publication of announcements of the conviction in three papers or magazines.