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The TF1 group was condemned on Tuesday for broadcasting live images of two topless candidates changing clothes in the locker room.
Tuesday December 12, TF1 and the production company Endemol were ordered by the Lille judicial court to pay 40,000 euros each to Carla Bonesso, Miss Aquitaine 2018, and Manon Jean-Mistral, Miss Corsica 2018.
On December 15, 2018, during the Miss France 2019 election, the two candidates were filmed topless backstage during a costume change. Images broadcast briefly live during prime time in front of eight million viewers.
The two companies were condemned in particular for image rights, the right to respect for private life and moral damage, according to the judgments of the Lille judicial court. The magistrates considered that the complainants were identifiable and that no authorization had been given concerning the filming of the intimacy of their bodies.
According to their lawyers, a camera had been installed by the production company in the changing rooms “without their knowledge”. “These court decisions are important to the extent that they remind us that the body of candidates, and of women in general, is not a commodity at the disposal of production companies,” they note in a press release.
Images which “continue, even today, to circulate, particularly on ___ographic sites”.
