Elon Musk has intensified his confrontation with French judicial authorities investigating alleged violations on his social media platform X, prompting a French LGBTQ rights organization to file a new legal complaint against the billionaire.
France launched an investigation in January 2025 into allegations that X, formerly known as Twitter, was used to interfere in French politics.
The investigation later expanded to include allegations related to Holocaust denial, the distribution of fabricated sexual videos, and possible complicity in the circulation of child sexual abuse material.
Responding on Friday to a post discussing the latest phase of the probe, Musk wrote in French that French authorities were “faker than a euro chocolate coin” and “more deviant than a flamingo wearing a glittery ballet skirt,” according to local media reports.
The French anti-homophobia organization Stop Homophobie filed a legal complaint against Musk over the remarks, AFP reported.
The group’s lawyer, Etienne Deshoulieres, told AFP that the complaint accuses Musk of “publicly insulting a group of people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Musk, who heads SpaceX and Tesla, has also reportedly ignored a summons from French judicial authorities for an informal interview linked to the investigation.
Earlier this year, after French authorities raided X’s offices in Paris in mid-February, Musk described French judges in another French-language post as “mentally retarded,” further escalating tensions with the government.
At the time of the raid, X condemned what it described as a politically motivated and arbitrary judicial action, denying any wrongdoing by the platform.