Ten convicted of online harassment against Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has ruled against ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced charges of circulating fabrications regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.
The court issued suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A longstanding false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has spread widely since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's gender.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens brushed aside all credible evidence contradicting her allegations choosing instead to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these assertions on her podcast and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her belief that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.
