French couple rapped for sex video at Canada WWI memorialA French couple were given a four-month suspended sentence and made to pay one euro in damages to the Canadian state for making a porn video at a World War I memorial, officials said Wednesday.The verdict came just six months after another couple were fined for taking nude photographs of themselves at the same memorial at Vimy in northern France, which pays tribute to the 60,000 Canadians who died in the Great War. In the latest ruling Tuesday by a court in the town of Arras Arras (äräs`), city (1990 pop. 42,715), capital of Pas-de-Calais dept., and historic capital of Artois, N France, on the canalized Scarpe River. , the married couple in their thirties, who put the video on a paying website, were also fined 500 euros each after they were found guilty of exhibitionism exhibitionism /ex·hi·bi·tion·ism/ (ek?si-bish´in-izm) a paraphilia marked by recurrent sexual urges for and fantasies of exposing one's genitals to an unsuspecting stranger. ex·hi·bi·tion·ism n. . The symbolic one euro in damages was ordered because the Canadian state was a civil plaintiff in the case. "The memorial has been known for a long time as a place where exhibitionism and voyeurism Voyeurism See also Eavesdropping. Actaeon turned into stag for watching Artemis bathe. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 8] elders of Babylon watch Susanna bathe. is common," prosecutor Elise Bozzolo told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . The memorial, two huge pylons that can be seen for miles around, was created in memory of the April 1917 battle of Vimy Ridge The Battle of Vimy Ridge was one of the opening battles in a larger British campaign known as the Battle of Arras during the First World War. It is also considered a major event in Canadian history for the key role the Canadian Corps of First Army played in the attack. , a costly victory for Canada. The site draws around half a million visitors each year. 
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