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Did French President Macron deploy Army tanks to the streets of France to tackle the yellow vest protests? No, that's not true: he did order the deployment of army troops alongside regular security forces of the Gendarmerie but no tanks were deployed. The rumor seems to have originated with a single journalist that seemed to have some difficulty with the…

Was the "EU Army" deployed to the streets of Paris to "crush" the "French Revolution" this weekend? No, that's not true: the claim came from a notoriously unreliable website that tries to make money by luring in people with explosive headlines that often misrepresent what actually happened in order to earn money with advertising. It is not true. The story…

Was Alexandre Benalla, a disgraced aide of French President Macron who was filmed beating up a protester on May 1st, also the neighbour of Mamoudou Gassama, the Malinese illegal immigrant who saved a child from falling off a balcony by quickly climbing up and who got naturalised for his heroism? No, that's not true: the part about Benalla was made…

Did French President Emmanuel Macron knowingly grant political asylum to an ISIS chief? No, that's not exactly true. Ahmed Hamdane Mahmoud Ayach El Aswadi posed as a refugee when he arrived in France in the summer of 2016. He was granted refugee status in June 2017, shortly after Emmanuel Macron took office in May 2017. The President of France does…

Were French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau planning on not telling American President Donald Trump where the afterparty was at the G-7 summit in Quebec? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a satirical website, it is not real. The story originated from an article published by The Borowitz Report on June 8,…