Overview
- A judicial source told AFP that the LFI deputy and Paris mayoral candidate is slated for a May 2026 trial.
- The case centers on an alleged act of fraud in July 2018 said to have harmed the news site Le Média.
- The court date comes shortly after the March municipal elections in which she is running for mayor of Paris.
- Sophia Chikirou accuses prosecutors of seeking to smear her before the vote and denounces the timing as political.
- Her lawyer, Dominique Tricaud, describes the matter as a resolved commercial dispute and calls the prosecution a political decision.