Ten found guilty of online harassment against 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 the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced allegations of spreading untruths regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to posting defamatory statements about the pair's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the convicted individuals. The complete verdict has not yet been published.
A longstanding false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France coincides with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the Brigitte Macron's identity.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens ignored any factual proof that refuted her assertions choosing instead to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these claims on her show and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her belief that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron first met her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
