Video ID: 20140910-011
M/S Inna Shevchenko and Femen activists arriving
W/S Inna Shevchenko and Femen activists entering the court room
W/S Police outside courtroom, journalists waiting
C/U Court room number 10, Justice palace, Paris
M/S Inna Shevchenko and Femen activists exiting court room
SOT, Inna Shevchenko, Femen leader (English): "What else did you expect? Did you expect us to lose? We did everything right and I think that today, the judge and the decision of the judge just proved it. What did you expect? That to criticise religion can be such a criminal act?"
M/S Inna Shevchenko and Femen activists laughing [CUTAWAY]
SOT, Inna Shevchenko, Femen leader (English): "Especially today, we live in a specific time. When we observe so much religious violence. I think such a decision makes a really big sense in this specific time, for all of us."
W/S Femen activists being interviewed by journalists [CUTAWAY]
SOT, Inna Shevchenko, Femen leader (English): "Also, we were thinking that we should go to Notre Dame right now to confess, but apparently there is nothing to confess for, you know ? So."
M/S Inna Shevchenko and Femen activists leaving the Justice palace
W/S Inna Shevchenko and Femen activists leaving
W/S Notre Dame Cathedral
SCRIPT
A Paris court threw out a legal case against nine Femen activists on Wednesday, concerning a lawsuit for a protest inside Notre Dame Cathedral.
After the court ruling, Femen leader, Inna Shevechenko asked press what other kind of verdict they might have expected, saying that they "did everything right" at the protest. Shevechenko was in visibly good spirits, laughing and joking with press and other Femen activists about going to confession at Notre Dame Cathedral following the hearing.
The activists had staged the protest in order to denounce the position of the Catholic Church in February 2013. The judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence of any material damage, and that the security service of Notre Dame had used disproportionate violence against the activists.
