Paul Moreira, the author of a French film that falsely calls a tragic fire in Odesa a ‘massacre’ and presents an equally distorted picture of EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s annexation of Crimea, has won a defamation suit against a freelance Ukrainian journalist. The French court’s ruling is all the more baffling as Anna Chesanovska-Jaillard, who lives and works in France, pointed to the same manipulation of facts as many French journalists whose reports Moreira did not decide to claim were defamatory.
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Halya Coynash: French court orders journalist to retract the truth about grossly misleading film on Ukraine
People lay flowers during a pro-Russian meeting next to Kulikove Pole Square in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on May 2, 2016 in memory of those who died in a fire at the Trade Union House in 2014.
