Overview

• The Tribunal correctionnel de Paris fined journalist Aziz Zemouri and Le Point’s director Étienne Gernelle €4,000 each for defamation against Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière.
• The court ordered an additional €6,000 in damages to be paid to Garrido and Corbière, who were falsely accused of employing an undocumented cleaner.
• The 2022 article was retracted the day after publication, with Le Point admitting it was based on false and unverified information from a single unreliable source.
• Investigations revealed that the allegations were fabricated by Rudy Succar, acting under pressure from former UDI deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde to harm his political opponents.
• Lagarde, Succar, and police contact Noam Anouar are under formal investigation for organized fraud, a separate case that remains ongoing.