French court convicts pro-Israel activist of libel

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A man has been convicted of defamation in France - for his claims about widely-publicised video which showed a Palestinian boy's death. Phlippe Karsenty said the TV report, which featured the boy taking cover from Israeli gunfire, was faked. Al Jazeera's Simon McGregor-Wood reports from Paris on a decade-long legal battle that followed.