Ten found guilty of online harassment targeting Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has found guilty ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced charges of circulating untruths regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.
A circulating false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has been in circulation since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's biological sex.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof that refuted her assertions in favour of platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these allegations on her show and online platforms, and in March 2024 stated that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her current spouse when she taught at his lycée.
The two married in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
