PARIS, April 17, 2008 (AFP) - Formula One chief Max Mosley on Thursday launched a legal bid to ban video, in which he was filmed cavorting with five prostitutes, from being aired in France.

A civil court will rule on Mosley´s request on Friday, a judicial source told AFP.

Film of Mosley, the president of the international motorsports federation (FIA), was widely viewed on the website of the British tabloid News of the World.

Last week, he lost an attempt in a London court to force footage of the incident, described by the newspaper as a ´Nazi-style orgy´, off the internet.

Mosley´s lawyer Philippe Ouakrat said that the video "characterises a violation of his right to respect for his private life" and demanded that the tape be banned from being aired on French territory.

As the scandal rumbles on the FIA will hold an extraordinary general assembly meeting on June 3 on Mosley´s future and his possible replacement.

Mosley, whose father Sir Oswald Mosley was a British fascist leader in the 1930s, does not dispute that events shown in the footage took place but says they were private and denies they were Nazi-themed.