RAT 5. Interesting. I was having some doubts while listening to him, along the lines of what you write here.
It seems the French authorities did indeed take him to court in Aix-en-Provence and he lost. He says he will appeal and laughed it off. However, I see he already lost an appeal in 2014, and was fined 8.1 Million Euros, so what exactly he was on about in this interview is puzzling. And adds weight to your argument about the interviewer not knowing his subject.