It is one of those coincidences of which the judicial calendar is sometimes kept secret.
This Wednesday, January 27, the Court of Appeal judged at the same hearing two highly media cases: Joxe-Fornia and Brion-Muller.
Two very distinct files but which have several points in common.
In both cases, a man sued a woman for defamation, for writings published on the Internet in October 2017, in the wake of the free speech movement following the Weinstein affair.
In both cases, the first instance civil trial before the 17th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court ended in a conviction, and an appeal was lodged.
To read also: Hervé Lehman: "The liberation of the word does not authorize the defamation"
At the hearing on Wednesday, priority was given to the Joxe / Fornia case.
On October 18, 2017, the young woman, who calls herself Ariane Fornia in her professional life but whose real name is Alexandra Besson, writes on her blog a text in which she recounts having suffered several sexual assaults in
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