Tuesday 2 March 2010

TinTin to be sued for Congo book

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/6123343/Tintin-to-be-sued-for-Congo-book.html

Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia"

Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago for symbolic damages of one euro from Tintin's Belgian publishers Moulinsart, and demanded the book be withdrawn from the market.

I'm amazed it's still on Amazon's shelves. Seems to have been pulled from everywhere else.

It's Belgian. More in the next post.

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