Does a real Eurosport video report say French soccer star Kylian Mbappé accused French President Emmanuel Macron of sexual harassment? No, that's not true: The video links to a fake website designed to mimic the appearance of the real Eurosport site. Lead Stories found no credible news reports or other reliable evidence confirming that Mbappé made such an accusation against Macron.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @ROYALMRBADNEWS account on X on June 6, 2026. It opened:
BREAKING: Kylian Mbappé, one of the world's most famous and successful footballers, accused Emmanuel Macron of sexual harassment and claimed it was the reason he left France for Spain. euro-sport.fr/mbappe-a-evoqu
This is what a screenshot of the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @ROYALMRBADNEWS on X.)
The post and video are embedded below:
BREAKING: Kylian Mbappé, one of the world's most famous and successful footballers, accused Emmanuel Macron of sexual harassment and claimed it was the reason he left France for Spain.https://t.co/35NwNbyTyD pic.twitter.com/zVIX1auNe9
-- THE REAL DARK JUDGE (@ROYALMRBADNEWS) June 6, 2026
The link in the post -- euro-sport.fr/mbappe-a-evoqu (archived here) -- leads to a fake website designed to look like the real Eurosport site. The legitimate Eurosport website (archived here) uses no hyphen in its domain name; its address is https://www.eurosport.fr/. Unlike the established Eurosport website, the copycat site is not a recognized media organization. According to the WHOIS data (archived here), that domain had been registered just days before the article's publication on May 31, 2026:
(Image source: WHOIS.)
AI detection
The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded that the video -- which includes real footage but fake context and an AI-generated voiceover -- was 91.3% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports for "Kylian Mbappé, Emmanuel Macron, and sexual harassment." Had there been such a claim by Mbappé, there likely would have been widespread news coverage.
