A 30 something French couple was fined $500 euros after being found guilty of exhibitionism in France.
They were also given a four month suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay one euro in compensation to the Canadian government.
The couple video recorded themselves having sex at the Vimy memorial to Canadian First World War dead and posted the video to an Internet site.
The memorial has become popular in France as a site for exhibitionism. Three cases were pending in January, 2008.
Samuel Cogez, a reporter with the local newspaper La Voix du Nord, told CBC that the memorial has been known "for years as a meeting place for all kinds of sexual encounters.
So the price of French freedom comes out to be about 15,000 Canadian lives in one war and a buck sixty Canadian 90 years later.
We'll have to keep that in mind the next time.
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