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Women cleared of defamation in French sexual misconduct case

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, file photo, France's former Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing Cecile Duflot leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris. Duflot, also former head of the Green Party, testified Thursday Feb.7, 2019 as a witness at Paris court where six French women stand trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Green lawmaker they accused of sexual misconduct 1½ years before the #MeToo movement. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

France: Witnesses back women in post-MeToo defamation trial

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Former Green party member Elen Debost poses at the Paris courthouse, Monday Jan.4, 2019. A former French lawmaker's defamation lawsuit against six women who accused him of sexual misconduct and four journalists who reported the allegations goes to trial Monday in what some fear illustrates a backlash against the #MeToo movement. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

6 French women on trial for alleging lawmaker harassed them

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2017 file photo, French secretary of state for women's rights Marlene Schiappa delivers a speech in Chassieu, near Lyon, central France. Twelve women, journalists and witnesses go on trial Monday Feb. 4, 2019, for alleged defamation of prominent French lawmaker Denis Baupin after their accusations of sexual misconduct forced his resignation, although Baupin denied any misconduct, and Marlene Schiappa has said she would not specifically comment on the case because it's up to justice to decide. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

French women put on defense in post-#MeToo defamation trial

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press