Ten sentenced of online harassment targeting Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has ruled against ten people for carrying out the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced accusations of circulating untruths regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to publishing defamatory statements about the pair's age disparity of 24 years.
The court delivered conditional custodial 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 transgender woman has been in circulation since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This recent ruling in France comes as the Macrons initiating a legal action for defamation in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the first lady's gender.
Their legal filing contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof disproving her claim in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 declared that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she taught at his high school.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
