Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for engaging in the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of disseminating fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making hurtful comments about the pair's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of up to eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.
A circulating unfounded claim alleging that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has spread widely since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the United States against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's identity.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof contradicting her allegations in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her podcast and online platforms, and in March 2024 declared that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his high school.
The pair married in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
