By IMOGEN CALDERWOOD and PETER ALLEN IN PARIS FOR MAINLINE PUBLISHED: 19:18 GMT, 10 February 2016 | UPDATED: 20:54 GMT, 10 February 2016

Madonna's ex boyfriend is fined 1 EURO for selfie with sleeping Jean-Marie Le Pen

Madonna's ex boyfriend is fined ONE EURO for posting a selfie with sleeping French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen

Frenchman Brahim Zaibat posted selfie with sleeping Jean-Marie Le Pen

He then shared the unflattering image on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Le Pen claimed the snap stopped National Front winning regional elections

Court found the snap didn't violate Mr Le Pen's exclusive right to his image

Madonna's ex-boyfriend has been fined just one euro after taking an unflattering selfie with the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen while he slept.

Mr Le Pen, 87, was fast asleep on a plane when fellow Frenchman Brahim Zaibat, 29, snapped him on the flight between Paris and the southern city of Nice.

Mr Zaibat, a professional dancer who dated the queen of pop for three years, then shared the photo on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

The unflattering snap - which showed Mr Le Pen with his head back and mouth hanging open - was tweeted more than 12,000 times after it was posted on December 12, ahead of France's regional elections.

The dancer can be seen in the seat behind Mr Le Pen, wearing headphones and smiling broadly.

But a Paris court has ordered Mr Zaibat to remove the offending image, after Mr Le Pen took him to court for invasion of privacy and copyright.

Although the National Front founder was seeking 50,000 euros (£39,000) in damages, Mr Zaibat was only fined a token one euro, reported The Local.

The court found that while the photo 'was of a humorous nature and was used to send a political message', it did not violate Mr Le Pen's exclusive right to his image, according to French law.

It added that the photo, which was actually taken two years ago, was 'neither degrading nor malicious'.

However, Mr Zaibat was also ordered to pay 3,000 euros (£2,300) in legal fees and take down the image within 48 hours or be fined 1,000 euros (£780) for every day it remained online.

Mr Zaibat used the image to urge voters not to back Mr Le Pen's far right National Front (NF) party in the second round of regional elections in December.

'Let's all vote tomorrow to give them a knock-out blow, to preserve our brotherly France' wrote Mr Zaibat, whose father comes from a North African immigrant background.

Mr Le Pen said the photo harmed his public image, and contributed to the defeat of the party in the elections.

The National Front, which is now led by his daughter, Marine Le Pen, constantly campaigns against immigration, especially from former French African colonies such as Algeria.

Mr Le Pen is a convicted racist and anti-Semite who has often complained about the number of people with foreign backgrounds in France.

He was officially expelled from the party last year because of his extreme views about the Nazi Holocaust, but remains an NF affiliated MEP.

Mr Zaibat’s lawyer Vincent Toledano confirmed that he would appeal the decision.

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