More than 300 women file complaint after video shows French first lady calling feminist protesters ‘sales connes’ Brigitte Macron is facing a legal complaint from several organisations, including women’s rights groups, after she was filmed saying feminist protesters at a theatre show in Paris were “stupid bitches”. More than 300 women – specifically 343, a historically symbolic number in French feminism– this week filed the complaint against the French first lady for public insult. Continue reading...

President’s statement blaming acclaimed director’s death on his dislike of him described as ‘disgusting’ and ‘vile’ Celebrities and lawmakers from both of the US’s major political parties are condemning Donald Trump after the president blamed the death of Rob Reiner on what he described as the acclaimed Hollywood director’s dislike of him. After the apparent killings of Reiner, 78, and his 68-year-old wife, Michele, who were found dead at their home Sunday in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, Trump took to social media to call the director “tortured and struggling”. Trump also claimed Reiner died “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”. Continue reading...