A group of ten sentenced of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has ruled against ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of circulating untruths regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the couple's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.
A longstanding unfounded claim suggesting 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 recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's identity.
Their lawsuit alleges that Owens disregarded substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions in favour of platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has frequently reiterated these claims on her podcast and social networks, and in March 2024 declared that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her current spouse when she taught at his secondary school.
The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
