Hollande's partner Valerie Trierweiler wins bikini photos fight
Three French magazines have been fined for publishing photographs of President Francois Hollande's companion Valerie Trierweiler in a bikini which were taken when they were on a summer break.
The judge on Tuesday ordered and to pay €1,500 (HK$15,130) each in fines and damages. The other magazine was fined €1,000.
According to the magazines, Trierweiler had sought €20,000 to €25,000 for breach of privacy over the snaps taken when she and Hollande were holidaying in the Bregancon presidential retreat on a small island off the Mediterranean coast.
Judge Anne-Marie Sauteraud however said Trierweiler "could not ignore that by bathing in a two-piece swimsuit on the beach of the official presidential retreat, she risked being photographed".
French glossy was fined €2,000 last month over the same photographs.
Also last month, created a storm by publishing photographs of British Prince William's wife Catherine sunbathing topless. French legal authorities have since banned the magazine from any further distribution of the pictures.
A court also ordered the magazine to hand over the files with the images of the British royal couple, which the publication has done.
Disgraced ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman named as his new girlfriend are also seeking damages from and , for publishing "stolen photographs" of them together.
