AFP, Paris :
A Paris court on Wednesday ordered the woman behind France’s answer to the #MeToo campaign to pay thousands of euros in damages for defaming the man she had accused of sexual harassment in a viral Twitter post.
Sandra Muller, a French journalist who coined the viral hashtag #balancetonporc
A Paris court on Wednesday ordered the woman behind France’s answer to the #MeToo campaign to pay thousands of euros in damages for defaming the man she had accused of sexual harassment in a viral Twitter post.
Sandra Muller, a French journalist who coined the viral hashtag #balancetonporc
(“expose your pig”) to describe the alleged harassment, slammed the verdict as “incomprehensible” and urged women to continue to speak out.
In a closely watched civil suit, the court ruled against Muller and ordered her to pay 15,000 euros ($16,500) in damages to French TV executive Eric Brion who she had accused of making sexually lewd remarks at a party, according to the ruling seen by AFP.
