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"A compulsive watcher of biased YouTube content can live in a fanatic world dominated by conspiracies."

Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick first raised concerns about the guidelines earlier this month, saying they were biased "against straight white men" and amounted to "two-tier justice".

But a suspicion that the court was biased - determined to block the political success of self-declared voice-of-the-people Le Pen - was echoed by supporters in and outside France on Monday.

The issue was first raised by Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, who said the new guidelines were biased "against straight white men".

The defense team has attacked the legal theory of the case and alleged Schleifer was biased, the sources said.