The 42-year-old's decision comes a day after a video … I'm not prepared to expose my family and myself any more when all these attacks are allowed. Video, The Covid doctor whose dance video went viral, US President Donald Trump at debate: Look at India. "I don't like people mixing up political life with people's privacy," said MP Alexis Corbière. VideoComposer with dementia meets students he inspired, 'The most wholesome thing on the internet', Drive-in movie bogged down by lockdown loos, Why Nigerian protesters are upset with Beyoncé, Africa's top shots: Sunrise, ballots and bullets, Inside Europe’s most infected area. The video, showing a man in a compromising position, quickly spread on social media late on Thursday. On Wednesday evening, a video emerged online along with messages addressed to a woman and quickly spread on social media.

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Benjamin Griveaux, viewed as one of Mr Macron's closest political allies, criticised "vile attacks" from a website and on social media concerning his private life. Benjamin Griveaux n'est plus candidat à la mairie de Paris. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen suggested that for the sake of democracy Mr Griveaux should perhaps not have resigned. The Countdown: Abraham Lincoln and joking Trump, Composer with dementia meets students he inspired.

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"For more than a year, my family and I have been subjected to defamatory remarks, lies, rumours, anonymous attacks, the revelation of stolen private conversations and death threats," he said. It then alleged that Mr Griveaux had exchanged intimate mobile phone messages with a young woman and sent her a personal video.