Ribery Drags CNN To Court

Ribery Drags CNN To Court

Babajide Orevba
updated at April 12, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Bayern Munich winger Frank Ribery is dragging American cable broadcaster to court over the use of one of his images in cryotheraphy.

Ribery Drags CNN To Court
Franck Ribery won the European player of the year award for the 2012/2013 season
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[article_adwert] Goal.com reports that CNN used an image of Ribery on twitter. The network posted a story of a woman who died while undergoing treatment, and used a photograph of the French winger in a similar cryotherapy chamber.

The 32 year old's lawyer has now confirmed the attacker and his family have asked him to press charges and seek damages of $1.5 million against the news network for using his photograph without permission.

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The lawyer, Carlo Alberto Busa told RMC: "Mr Franck Ribery never gave his authorisation and his consent for the use of this picture to this publication."

"Ribery and his family instructed me to go to French court to seek damages of at least $1.5 million."

Ribery is recovering from an ankle injury that has kept him out of action since the Champions League clash with Shakhtar Donetsk in March.

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Babajide Orevba is a CAF accredited Nigerian journalist and HOD of the Local Desk with over 10 years of experience in media landscape.He studied NCE Political Science/Social Studies, AOCOED.
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