A Congolese accountant is to launch a lawsuit in France against Tintin for racism, accusing judges in the cartoon hero’s native Belgium protecting a “national symbol”.
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By Henry Samuel in Paris
Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1114 Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to “racism and xenophobia”.
“http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4456’s little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved,” he said.
Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago for symbolic damages of one euro from http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1184’s Belgian publishers Moulinsart, and demanded the book be withdrawn from the market.
But since then his lawyer, Claude Ndjakanyi, said there had been no response from Belgian justice. “Our request to access the dossier was judged premature even though the investigation has been running for two years,” he said.Mr Ndjakanyi claimed the silence was politically motivated: “It’s the symbol of Belgium that is under attack.”