French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened a shopkeeper in Paris, who sells voodoo dolls of him. If the salesman does not stop selling the dolls, he may get sued.
The dolls have needles in them, and come with instructions on how to use the power of voodoo against the elected president.
Although non-superstitious individuals may make fun of the doll, there are others, among whom Sarkozy, who consider the dolls to be highly offensive and a product of hate-speech. Additionally, of course, there are many who do not believe in these things, but who adhere to a ‘but lets not touch it either’ philosophy.
The doll has quotes from Sarkozy on it such as “get lost, jerk” (which Sarkozy reportedly said to a man who refused to shake his had at an event) and “work more to earn more,” which may sound logical to most, but not to France’s large socialist and communist populations, who dismiss any relationship between working and earning money.
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