Why the French court convicted Karsenty of libel in the al-Dura case

Incredibly, the reason that a French court found Philippe Karsenty guilty of libel for calling the al-Dura case 'faked' is that the French Supreme Court ordered the lower court not to consider any exculpatory evidence.

This week the Paris Court of Appeals disgraced itself and revealed the
dark side of France’s arcane laws of defamation, elevating the principle
of French honor above the