A group of ten found guilty of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced charges of disseminating false claims regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's significant age difference.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The full ruling has yet to be released.
A persistent unfounded claim claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has spread widely since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France coincides with the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the United States of America against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the first lady's gender.
Their legal filing states that Owens disregarded all credible evidence contradicting her allegations choosing instead to give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her future husband when she taught at his high school.
The pair married in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
