Ten individuals found guilty of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has convicted ten people for perpetrating the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced accusations of circulating fabrications regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to posting hurtful comments about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court handed down suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has not yet been published.
A persistent unfounded claim alleging that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has spread widely since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's gender.
Their legal filing states that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these assertions on her show and social networks, and in March 2024 declared that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
