Musk insults French magistrates on X: "More fr... than a flamingo in a neon tutu!"

It had been a while since Elon Musk had done any damage to his European market, on which he recorded unprecedented collapses in 2025, particularly in Tesla registrations. But the calm was short-lived. The multi-billionaire founder of Tesla reacted on X to the news of ongoing investigations in France into possible illegal activities of his social, insulting the magistrates in charge of that investigation, even with homophobic expressions. "They are more fake than a chocolate euro and more fr... than a flamingo in a neon tutu!' was his comment, written in French and published late last night, to a post mentioning an article on the affair. Beyond the merits of the story, it is an intervention that clearly does not

As part of the investigation, which began in January 2025, an investigating judge is now tasked with investigating possible complicity in the dissemination of child pornographic images on the social network X, according to an explanation by the Paris prosecutor's office on Thursday, a few days after Musk failed to show up at a French court summons for a hearing. Musk, as well as former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, are being investigated as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the alleged events. 'They are mentally retarded,' Musk had already said in French, again via the same social network, referring to the French magistrates, after a search in mid-February at the platform's Paris offices. The charges include, in addition to possible complicity in the dissemination of child pornographic images, the suspected use of X's artificial intelligence model, Grok, to create 'deepfakes', i.e. ultra-realistic montages of a sexual nature, without the consent of the victims. The social network had denounced during the search an 'act

abusive judiciary' based on 'political motives' and had dismissed all offences, stating that he would 'not be intimidated'.