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Court orders French #MeToo founder to pay damages for defamation

Sandra Muller - the woman who started France's campaign to encourage other women to expose their sexual harassers - has lost a defamation ordered to pay €20,000.

A Paris court has ruled the woman who launched the French version of the #MeToo movement must pay 20,000 euros for defaming the man she accused of harassment.
A Paris court has ruled the woman who launched the French version of the #MeToo movement must pay 20,000 euros for defaming the man she accused of harassment. Source: AAP

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By AFP-SBS

Presented by Justin Sungil Park

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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.

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