Russian media has described the new President of France, Emmanuel Macron, as a gay psychopath who hates his country.
An article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian tabloid newspaper, refers to a picture of a topless Mr Macron as he poses for a magazine with the title “coming out”.
The piece then later goes on to call Mr Macron a psychopath and suggest that he does not love France and instead only loves himself.
In reference to the picture, the article reads: “For gays, this expression means 'out of the shadows', to recognise you’re gay too”.
The article also cites a psychiatrist, Adriano Sagatori, who claimed to have studied the biography of the French President.
He described Mr Macron as a psychopath who he said would not fight for the French people.
“Like all psychopaths, he believes in his higher purpose. Macron does not love France and will not fight for the French people.
“Macron loves only himself and he will fight to defend their fragile identity," KP claimed in its article.
The piece also goes on to say that the word psychopath is not an insult and adds that the French deserve Mr Macron.
“They, [the French], have to go through globalist hell. They do not deserve democracy, paid for the lives of millions of Soviet soldiers,” it says.
This is not the first time Russian media has chosen to attack Mr Macron and question his sexuality.
Sputnik, a Russian government-controlled news agency, previously claimed Mr Macron was “secretly gay and living a ‘double life' while backed by a “very wealthy gay lobby.”
There have also been accusations that suggest Mr Macron had been targeted by Russian-linked hackers.
Researchers with the Japanese anti-virus firm Trend Micro listed 160 attempts at electronic espionage which were attributed to a group called Pawn Storm.
American spy agencies have accused the group of acting as an arm of Russia’s intelligence apparatus.
Earlier in the campaign there were also claims that Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National and Mr Macron’s rival in the presidential race, had used a “fake news” article, to allude to allegations that Mr Macron has an offshore bank account in the Bahamas.
Nicolas Vanderbiest, a commentator for France Culture, tweeted: “So the fake news story on Macron’s account in the Bahamas, we can say without being misleading, that it was by the Russians.”
Russian government officials have repeatedly denied claims of state-sanctioned hacking or interference in the election.
In the French election Mr Macron comprehensively beat Marine Le Pen of the hard-right Front National.
He successfully secured 65 per cent of valid votes cast compared with only 35 per cent for his opponent.
At the age of 39, Mr Macron is now the youngest President in the Republic’s history.
