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Arras Mayor and Councillor File Complaints After Influencer Mocked Elected Official With Trisomy 21

The case followed ministerial intervention that secured YouTube's removal of the livestream and could lead to regulatory or judicial action.

Éléonore Laloux chez elle à Arras dans le Pas-de-Calais, le 13 février 2020
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Overview

  • In a live YouTube stream on April 10 the influencer repeatedly used the slur "mongolienne" and mocked Éléonore Laloux’s way of speaking, and excerpts of the broadcast continued to circulate online.
  • On Friday both Laloux and Arras mayor Frédéric Leturque filed legal complaints, with the mayor lodging a contre X for public insult against an elected official.
  • Camille Galliard-Minier, the minister charged with disability issues, intervened to have the video removed from YouTube after extracts circulated.
  • The creator has been identified as the YouTuber TeddyboyRSA, who has about 47,000 subscribers, and a public solidarity campaign using the logo “Nous sommes tous Éléonore” formed on social media.
  • Leturque has written to President Macron and plans to seize Arcom, which could prompt regulatory scrutiny of platform moderation and renew debate over protections for disabled people online.