Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has convicted ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of circulating fabrications regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the couple's significant age difference.
The court handed down suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.
A circulating false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's identity.
Their complaint alleges that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these claims on her show and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her belief that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her future husband when she taught at his lycée.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
