Richard Malka

Richard Malka
Born (1968-06-06) 6 June 1968
Paris, France
Nationality French
Occupation Lawyer

Richard Malka (born 6 June 1968) is a French lawyer and comics writer. As lawyer Malka in 2007 successfully defended Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val against charges of racism following the magazine's publication of Mohammad caricatures. Other clients include Clearstream, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Caroline Fourest.

Early life and education

Malka was born in the 11th arrondissement of Paris to Jewish parents from Morocco. His father was a tailor, his mother a housewife and he has two brothers. He obtained the baccalauréat in 1986 and became a lawyer in 1992 after first having studied science and business.[1][2]

Career as lawyer

As lawyer he started to work for Georges Kiejman[2] and started his own law firm in 1999.[3][4]

Malka first met with Charlie Hebdo as an advocate in 1994 at a time the magazine was often attacked by Alliance générale contre le racisme et pour le respect de l'identité française et chrétienne (AGRIF) for anti-clericalism and by Front National.[2] He remained close to the people at the magazine. In 2007, Malka and Kiejman defended Charlie Hebdo's editor Philippe Val in a suit for incitement to racism[5] by Union of Islamic Organisations of France and the Grand Mosque of Paris following the magazine's publication of Muhammad caricatures. Val was acquitted.[6][7] Malka also assisted Charlie Hebdo before and after the Charlie Hebdo shootings.[8]

Malka worked as an advocate for Clearstream in the Clearstream affair where Clearstream sued investigating journalist Denis Robert for libel. Robert was eventually cleared of all charges.[1][9]

Malka defended his prior boss Kiejman in a defamation suit brought by Olivier Metzner. Kiejman who advocate for Liliane Bettencourt in the Bettencourt affair had accused Metzner who was advocate for Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers had accused Metzner of being the brain behind a complot against Liliane Bettencourt. The court in 2011 found that Kiejman's words were defamatory, but that they were stated in good faith and Kiejman was acquitted of wrongdoing.[10]

In 2011, Malka was hired by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair to take various legal actions against various newsmedia regarding the Carlton affair and related issues.[4][11]

In 2012, Malka and Keijman defended Caroline Fourest and Fiammetta Venner, who had co-authored the biography Marine Le Pen, in a defamation lawsuit filed by Marine Le Pen, her former husband, Jean-Marie Le Pen and Front National. The authors were acquitted on most accounts by a Paris court, but a couple of sentences were deemed to be defamatory and the authors fined for those.[12]

Malka was advocate for the day care center Baby-Loup who fired a woman because she wore hijab in 2008, alleging that the hijab violated the center's secular nature. The Court of Cassation in 2014 ruled that the center was within its right to fire the employee.[13]

Career as cartoon writer

In 2004, Malka published the first issue of the comics L'Ordre de Cicéron, illustrated by Paul Gillon. Later three other issues have been published. The series follow a family involved in finance and law in the US and France from the 1930s to contemporary times.[14] He has also published other series, including one about Nicolas Sarkozy. In 2014, he published La vie de palais : il était une fois les avocats..., illustrated by Catherine Meurisse which tells the story of a young female advocate. Ondine Millot wrote in a review in Libération that the cartoon was pretty, malignant and funny while at the same time giving information on how the law system works.[15][16]

Publications

Political-humoristic cartoons :

References

  1. 1 2 Luc Le Vaillant (15 October 2015) Richard Malka, fais ce qu’il te plaide (French) Libération
  2. 1 2 3 Didier Pasamonik (20 June 2008 ( La face kärchée de Richard Malka. (Archive)
  3. ↑ Richard Malka (French) grand-advocats.com as archived on 16 January 2015
  4. 1 2 Anna Cabana (15 December 2011) Malka, l'avocat rock'n'roll de DSK (French) Le Point
  5. ↑ Victoria Ward (7 January 2015) Charlie Hebdo cartoonist murdered in Paris terrorist attack was on al-Qaeda wanted list The Telegraph
  6. ↑ Christophe Boltanski (23 March 2007) Procès Charlie: les caricatures de Mahomet relaxées (French) Libération
  7. ↑ French cartoons editor acquitted BBC. 22 March 2007
  8. ↑ Isabelle Hanne (11 January 2015) Undeterred, Charlie Hebdo staff gather for first editorial meeting after fatal attack The Sydney Morning Herald
  9. ↑ Augustin Scalbert (8 February 2011) Denis Robert bat Clearstream : la fin d'une « vraie censure » (French) Nouvel Observateur / Rue69
  10. ↑ J. M. with AFP (20 October 2010) L'avocat de Liliane Bettencourt perd son procès en diffamation contre l'avocat de sa fille (sic) (French) 20 Minutes.
  11. ↑ Rumeurs de séparation : DSK et Sinclair poursuivent Closer (French) Le Parisien, 28 June 2012
  12. ↑ Libération Caroline Fourest et Fiammetta Venner condamnées pour diffamation contre Marine Le Pen (French) Yahoo.fr. Retrieved 16 October 2015
  13. ↑ French court backs firing of childcare worker for wearing Islamic headscarf Radio France Internationale 26 June 2014
  14. ↑ Noémie Sudre (August 2012) Trois questions à Richard Malka : Des bulles à la barre Le Magazine Littéraire.
  15. ↑ Ondine Millot (3 November 2014) Les dessous de la robe, par un avocat pénaliste et une dessinatrice de BD (French) Libération
  16. ↑ L’avocat ce héros... de bande dessinée ! Village de la Justice. 5 November 2014
  17. ↑ Romain Brethes, Candide chez les bonobos, Le Point, 4 décembre 2010
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