Court: Bomb Victims Can’t Sue Over Photos

A French court threw out a lawsuit Tuesday by subway bombing victims who sought damages from five French publications that ran pictures of them bloodied and stunned from the blast.

The court ruled the lawsuit was “incompatible” with the European Convention for the Safeguarding of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of information and expression, said presiding Judge Martine Ract-Madoux.

The photos were taken at the Saint Michel subway station in Paris after a bomb ripped through a train on July 25, 1995, killing eight people and injuring nearly 100.

They showed the bodies of some victims, their clothes spattered with blood, and others whose clothes were partially ripped away by the blast.