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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron are waiting for the arrival of the King and the Queen of Belgium at the Élysée, the presidential palace in Paris, on October 14, 2024.
POLICY – ” It’s anything. This summer, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron resolved to file a complaint against the American influencer conspiracy and Trumpist, Candace Owens. As told in detail The HuffPosT here, the latter began to relay the infox according to which the first lady is actually a man. If being a trans person is not defamatory, this conspiracy theory is nevertheless part of a resolutely transphobic climate, thus noted in this regard the researcher Maud Royer, always for The HuffPost.
In an interview given to Paris Matchand published this Tuesday, August 19, in the wake of the summit which was held in Washington on the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron is expressed as rarely before, on this complaint, with which he is himself associated. A change of foot. “” There was a tradition of saying: you have to let flow (…). At first it was in France. We were recommended not to file a complaint. This was likely to cause a “Streisand effect” “first explains the French president.
Brigitte Macron has already filed a complaint in France, but the two women accused of relaying these false information was released last July by the Court of Appeal which nevertheless said that “Validated in any way” Rumors. The president’s wife was appeared in the cassation
« It is a question of enforcing the truth “
It’s faced with ” the scale Taken by this conspiratorial theory in the United States, which Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have decided to act. Candace Owens carries hundreds of thousands of views with each video posted on YouTube. “” It is a question of enforcing the truth. We are talking about the civil status of the First Lady of France, a wife, a mother, a grandmother “, Defends the French president who adds:” It’s about defending my honor! Because it’s anything. »
The head of state does not deprive himself of scratching the political dimension in which Candace Owens gravitates, ” Someone who knew very well that she had false information and did it in order to harm, In the service of an ideology and with connections established with far-right leaders ». And to target the administration of Donald Trump, of which Candace Owens is a fervent supporter? “” Those who tell you about this alleged freedom of speech are those who prohibit journalists in the oval office. I don’t accept that. »
Last February, the White House excluded from the oval office a journalist refusing to use the term of “Gulf of America”. The correspondents of the Reuters agencies, Associated Press and Bloomberg say they are concerned with them regularly excluded from the presidential plane. Still this winter, it was the vice-president JD Vance who had tried to give lessons of freedom of expression to Europe in a staggering speech at a conference in Munich.
