Ten sentenced of cyber-bullying directed at Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has found guilty ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced allegations of disseminating fabrications regarding her gender 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 circulating false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has been in circulation since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's biological sex.
Their lawsuit states that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions choosing instead to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she taught at his lycée.
The couple entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.
