A group of ten found guilty of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of circulating false claims regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making malicious remarks about the pair's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the convicted individuals. The full ruling has not yet been published.
A longstanding false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has spread widely since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a legal action for defamation in the US against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has also voiced similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's identity.
Their complaint contends that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence contradicting her allegations opting to give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her show and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would risk all her credibility on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his high school.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
