After several complaints to France's advertising regulators, the adverts – which one regulator called "an attack on the dignity of women" – are to be taken down on Friday.
Defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as "particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings," these offenses are more than just isolated or sporadic events.
The housing minister, Christine Boutin, denounced it as "an unacceptable attack on the dignity of human beings".
The court said Bachmann's comments, which date back to September 2014, constituted an "attack on the dignity" of refugees.
Mr. Bollinger, in an e-mail message sent to students and faculty, wrote, "An attack on the dignity of any member of our community is an assault on all of us".
Rape is a very big scandal for a family, even though the woman has been forced: it is an attack on the dignity of the family, and the tribe to which it belongs.
Christine Boutin, a former minister under Nicolas Sarkozy and founder of the Christian Democrat party, tweeted her disgust and her party called for a boycott of "this outrageous stamp", saying it was an attack "on the dignity of women and the sovereignty of France" and should immediately be withdrawn.
In a second case to be heard at the same time in May at the Royal Courts of Justice, a claimant who refused to work for six months unpaid under the government's community action programme will argue that it represented a form of forced labour and an "attack on his dignity".
"There are few things the North takes more seriously than an attack on the dignity of its supreme leadership, and it might have decided to bring the female members of the band back quickly to cut off such reports," Yang said.
