French magazine wins Prince Albert free press court case

A French magazine which published a tell-all story about the out-of-wedlock son of Prince Albert II of Monaco has won a free press case at the European Court of Human Rights.

In May 2005, Albert tried unsuccessfully to block Paris-Match’s story about Nicole Coste, a French-Togolese flight attendant, who sought acknowledgement of paternity for their son. The story also ran in the German magazine Bunte.