Legal Action from President Sarkozy & Ms Carla Bruni

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31.01.08
Ryanair Responds to Legal Action from President Sarkozy & Ms Carla Bruni

Ryanair, France’s largest low fares airline today (Thursday, 31 January 2008) responded to a legal action launched by President Sarkozy and Ms Carla Bruni, relating to a humorous advert, which ran in the Le Parisien newspaper last week.

Ryanair has previously written to President Sarkozy’s office apologising for any offence caused, and undertaking that it would not publish the advert (or anything similar to it) again. Ryanair has also offered - as a token of its regret – to make a donation of €5,000 to any charity of President Sarkozy’s choice.

Last evening however, Ryanair received legal papers from President Sarkozy and Ms Bruni under which President Sarkozy was seeking damages of €1, but Ms Bruni was seeking damages of €500,000. Ryanair’s lawyers will today tell the French Courts that they are happy to settle President Sarkozy’s claim for €1 and Ryanair will renew its offer to make a charitable contribution of €5,000 to any charity of President Sarkozy’s choice. Ryanair has the utmost respect for President Sarkozy and the high office which he holds.

Ryanair’s lawyers will also make a similar offer to Ms Bruni, offering damages of €1 and a contribution of €5,000 to any charity of Ms Bruni’s choice. Ryanair will not however agree to any totally unjustified payment of €500,000 to Ms Bruni, who has engaged in an open, widely publicised and internationally reported relationship with President Sarkozy. The advert used by Ryanair was taken from one of the French newspapers and Ryanair notes that Ms Bruni did not make any objection to any of the remaining thousands of photographs of her which have appeared in over 55,000 newspapers and magazines in recent weeks.

Speaking today Ryanair’s Peter Sherrard said:

“We apologised immediately and sincerely to both President Sarkozy and Ms Bruni for this advert which ran in Le Parisien newspaper this week. It was an honest attempt by Ryanair to reflect humorously and positively on this very public and publicised relationship.

“However Ryanair has no intention of giving in to threats from Ms Bruni or to her ludicrous claims and we will vigorously oppose any claim for €500,000 from this lady who had engaged in one of the most open, publicised and internationally reported relationships, in the world, in recent weeks.

“We do however renew our sincere apologies to both President Sarkozy and to Ms Bruni and believe that an appropriate payment to a charity of their choice would be the best and most elegant way to resolve this matter”.

[Horrido]

moin,

irgendwann fällt der verrückte Ire mit seinen Werbe Slogans mal ganz gepflegt auf die Nase

Und die Marketing Strategen von Air Berlin sind epochale Langweiler ! So bescheuerte Werbespots für eine Airline wie sie momentan unters Volk gebracht werden, habe ich noch nie gesehen. Und was diese Tussnelda betrifft, die uns in ihrem
Selbsterfahrungsgruppen-Charme erzählen will, wie ungestört doch das Fliegen mit AB-Huni ist....boah neeeee...da hab`ich doch lieber `n Crash Test Dummy neben mir sitzen.

Marketing Leute gehören alle durch die Bank weg in den Niedriglohn Sektor. Jawollja !

Fazit: Die Flotte von Ryanair und Air Berlin müsste eigentlich komplett gegroundet werden ! Alles No Go`s !!

Hach.... bin ich heute mal wieder negativ eingestellt.



Gruß Horrido

P.s. Flieger müssen fliegen für den S... !

[heinz-w]

Marketing Leute gehören alle durch die Bank weg in den Niedriglohn Sektor. Jawollja !

Oha, wenn das der Martin hört. Tstststststsss

[Rolf]

Unser Martin kann gar nicht gemeint sein! Das ist ja wohl sonnenklar. Ansonsten aber mal wieder ein köstlich ironisch-sarkastischer Kommentar von @Horrido!

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05.02.08
Ryanair Accepts French Court Decision in Sarkozy Case

OFFERS TO PAY A FURTHER €60,000 TO ANY FRENCH CHARITY NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT SARKOZY

Ryanair, France’s largest low fares airline, today confirmed that it would accept today’s decision of the French Court, which ordered Ryanair to pay damages of €1 to President Nicolas Sarkozy and €60,000 to his new wife Ms Carla Bruni.

Welcoming today’s decision, Peter Sherrard of Ryanair said:

“In the light of the extraordinary worldwide publicity generated by this single advert, we have instructed our lawyers to write to President Sarkozy’s office, offering to make a similar €60,000 payment to any French charity of President Sarkozy’s choice.”

“Ryanair had already confirmed that this advert will not run again. Now that this matter has been settled satisfactorily, we look forward to continuing to grow Ryanair’s low fare services in France where today Ryanair serves 23 French airports, carrying 6 million tourists each year on our guaranteed lowest air fares with a guarantee of no fuel surcharges today, tomorrow or ever.”