A group of ten sentenced of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has found guilty ten people for carrying out the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced accusations of circulating fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to posting defamatory statements about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.
The court issued suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the defendants. The complete verdict has not yet been published.
A circulating false narrative alleging that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a libel case in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the first lady's biological sex.
Their legal filing states that Owens ignored any factual proof disproving her claim opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her show and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she taught at his lycée.
The pair tied the knot in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
