A group of ten found guilty of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has ruled against ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of circulating fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court issued suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The full ruling has not yet been published.
A longstanding unfounded claim claiming that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has existed since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a defamation lawsuit in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the Brigitte Macron's biological sex.
Their lawsuit alleges that Owens ignored all credible evidence contradicting her allegations choosing instead to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her show and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her future husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
