Lawyer lambasts Louis Vuitton
A French lawyer and political activist, Juan Branco, is speaking out against the commercialisation of public spaces in France after leaking a video that showed a security guard grabbing and slapping a 13-year-old child standing outside the Louvre Museum in Paris. The video was filmed during an event taking place at the museum by French company Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. An unnamed witness originally posted the video but retracted it after allegedly being “threatened” with “blacklisting and legal proceedings”. Branco claims that he verified the video and took to reposting it, stating: “I can’t be threatened as the original person would have. It’s nonetheless extremely problematic to see how it could have gone unnoticed.” A spokesperson for