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Benjamin Griveaux will not be standing in next month's Paris mayoral election. Thre President's chosen candidate has pulled out, condemning "ignoble attacks" against him, after a sex tape and other images were posted online.
Opinion is divided over whether the married, father of three has a right to a private life, a long-held French belief that's protected many politicians in the past, or - if by sending such images - he's violated his own privacy. The man behind the revelations - a Russian artist in exile - says he wanted to expose Griveaux's hypocrisy.
Web users show solidarity for the victims of a deadly attack on a church in the southern French city of Nice, as #catholique trends online. Also, following the attack, the former Malaysian prime minister published a series of controversial tweets, the most shocking of which was eventually flagged...
Published 10/29/20
Lockdown flashbacks: The French online community reacts to "Confinement Season Two" after President Emmanuel Macron announces a second nationwide lockdown. In other news, Charlie Hebdo strikes again with a new cartoon of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Published 10/28/20