A group of ten sentenced of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has found guilty ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced charges of disseminating untruths regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of up to eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.
A persistent conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a libel case in the US against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's identity.
Their legal filing contends that Owens disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these claims on her show and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her conviction that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.
The couple married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
