Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has found guilty ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of spreading fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the couple's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.
A circulating conspiracy theory claiming that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France comes as the Macrons engaging in a defamation lawsuit in the United States against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's biological sex.
Their legal filing states that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence disproving her claim in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has regularly repeated these claims on her digital program and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his high school.
The couple entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
