<p>French police are investigating a photographer for violation of privacy over a picture showing President Emmanuel Macron in swimming trunks on holiday in the Mediterranean, prosecutors confirmed to AFP.</p>.<p>"An investigation is under way," the Paris prosecutor's office said on Sunday evening, confirming a report by Europe 1 radio.</p>.<p>The picture was one of a set of paparazzi shots published by the Voici gossip magazine in August 2020 that reportedly angered the 43-year-old president.</p>.<p>Some showed Macron, who was holidaying at the Bregancon fort belonging to the French state on the French Riviera, relaxing with his wife Brigitte and other family members on a boat in his swimming trunks.</p>.<p>Others showed him riding a jet ski, bare-chested but for a life jacket.</p>.<p>One of the jet ski pictures was later included in an exhibition of shots of French presidents on holiday hosted by a Parisian art gallery.</p>.<p>Macron's office refused to comment on the affair, but Europe 1 said he and Brigitte had filed a criminal complaint for invasion of privacy.</p>.<p>The photographer behind the shots, Thibault Daliphard, told AFP he had been summoned to appear at a police station near his home in southern France on Tuesday. Europe 1 said the gallery owner had already been questioned.</p>.<p>Daliphard said he was "surprised" at Macron's reaction, saying the jet ski picture showed "a young, dynamic president who looks almost Kennedy-esque" and was, therefore, flattering.</p>.<p>He noted that past French leaders had often posed for photographs on holiday at Bregancon fort, beginning with Charles Pompidou and Valery Giscard d'Estaing in the 1970s.</p>.<p>But while later presidents, including Macron, continued the tradition, paparazzi photographers have staged ever bolder attempts to snap them in private moments.</p>.<p>Both Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande and their partners were also photographed without their knowledge in their swimming trunks in the azure waters lapping at the foot of the fort.</p>.<p>To avoid the long lens of the paparazzi, Macron had the fort endowed with a pool, at a cost of €34,000 ($40,000), but he later admitted that he preferred the sea.</p>
<p>French police are investigating a photographer for violation of privacy over a picture showing President Emmanuel Macron in swimming trunks on holiday in the Mediterranean, prosecutors confirmed to AFP.</p>.<p>"An investigation is under way," the Paris prosecutor's office said on Sunday evening, confirming a report by Europe 1 radio.</p>.<p>The picture was one of a set of paparazzi shots published by the Voici gossip magazine in August 2020 that reportedly angered the 43-year-old president.</p>.<p>Some showed Macron, who was holidaying at the Bregancon fort belonging to the French state on the French Riviera, relaxing with his wife Brigitte and other family members on a boat in his swimming trunks.</p>.<p>Others showed him riding a jet ski, bare-chested but for a life jacket.</p>.<p>One of the jet ski pictures was later included in an exhibition of shots of French presidents on holiday hosted by a Parisian art gallery.</p>.<p>Macron's office refused to comment on the affair, but Europe 1 said he and Brigitte had filed a criminal complaint for invasion of privacy.</p>.<p>The photographer behind the shots, Thibault Daliphard, told AFP he had been summoned to appear at a police station near his home in southern France on Tuesday. Europe 1 said the gallery owner had already been questioned.</p>.<p>Daliphard said he was "surprised" at Macron's reaction, saying the jet ski picture showed "a young, dynamic president who looks almost Kennedy-esque" and was, therefore, flattering.</p>.<p>He noted that past French leaders had often posed for photographs on holiday at Bregancon fort, beginning with Charles Pompidou and Valery Giscard d'Estaing in the 1970s.</p>.<p>But while later presidents, including Macron, continued the tradition, paparazzi photographers have staged ever bolder attempts to snap them in private moments.</p>.<p>Both Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande and their partners were also photographed without their knowledge in their swimming trunks in the azure waters lapping at the foot of the fort.</p>.<p>To avoid the long lens of the paparazzi, Macron had the fort endowed with a pool, at a cost of €34,000 ($40,000), but he later admitted that he preferred the sea.</p>