Jacko: French fans awarded €1 over death

[The Straight Story]

Jacko: French fans awarded €1 over death

Some hardcore Michael Jackson fans were so upset when he died in 2009 they sued the doctor who was convicted in connection with the King of Pop's death. On Tuesday a French court awarded them a symbolic damages payment of €1.

Five Michael Jackson fans won symbolic damage payments of one euro each on Tuesday as a French court agreed they had suffered "emotional damage" from the pop star's death.

Played out in a court in the city of Orleans, the unusual case saw 34 fans suing Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, who was jailed in 2011 over the singer's death from an overdose, for the suffering they endured.

The court ruled that five of the plaintiffs -- two from France, two from Switzerland and one from Belgium -- had proven emotional suffering from Jackson's death.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20140211/michael-jackson-fans-get-damages-for-emotional-suffering

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. I haven't been able to find out who has to pay the lawyers' fees

The whole thing looks like lawyers manufacturing a case to enrich themselves, and I'd like to know whom they've forced into paying.