Ten sentenced of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for carrying out the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced allegations of spreading false claims regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the pair's significant age difference.
The court issued conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The full ruling has still to be made public.
A circulating unfounded claim suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has spread widely since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France comes as the Macrons engaging in a legal action for defamation in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's gender.
Their complaint alleges that Owens disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her show and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
