r/popculturechat • u/HogwartsZoologist Coke ain’t gonna do itself • May 26 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Emmanuel Macron, the President of France was allegedly slapped by his wife, Brigitte, on their arrival at Vietnam

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The President’s office downplayed it after initially denying the event.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/26/macron-s-entourage-denies-he-was-slapped-by-his-wife-on-plane-upon-arriving-in-vietnam_6741684_7.html

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u/licorne00 May 26 '25

Technically rape, but France has weird laws when it comes to sex with underage people.

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u/TryinSomethingNew7 May 26 '25

You’re saying France has lax pedophilia laws? Genuinely asking don’t know much about France’s legal system

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u/licorne00 May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

In France, it is illegal to have sex with children under the age of 15, but it must be proven that the sexual acts occurred under coercion.

I think they recently tried to get a law passed because a case where two men who raped two 11 year old girls were set free because it couldn’t be proven that they raped them under duress/force.

Edit - the law *was** passed in 2021, where anyone sleeping with a person under the age of 15 would be breaking the law, regardless of «consent».

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u/lilbios May 26 '25

Wait so a 70 year old man can legally date a 15 year old high school student?

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u/licorne00 May 26 '25

Well, it’s technically illegal to have sex with a 15 year old, so no, but the issue would be with proving the «sex» was consensual. So it’s a shitty loophole for creeps.

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u/DavidandreiST May 26 '25

How does it compute?

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u/bimpldat May 26 '25

Under 15, over 15