The libel suit lasted a decade, with the ultimate verdict being against Karsenty and requiring him to pay damages to France 2.

In 1996, he set up a business consultancy, and in 2002, he ran for parliament on a center-right ticket, obtaining only 3% of the vote.

[5] In February 2013, the Constitutional Council found irregularities in the funding of his electoral campaign and barred him from standing for public office for a period of one year.

Karsenty had accused the network of having broadcast staged footage of the reported killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, during a gun battle in the Gaza Strip in 2000.

[13][14] In parallel, on 10 June 2010, a court in Nanterre sentenced Canal Plus and Tac Press for defaming Karsenty in a documentary entitled Rumors, Brainwashing: The New News War,[15] broadcast by this channel on 24 April 2008.