A group of ten convicted of online harassment directed at Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has ruled against ten people for engaging in the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced accusations of spreading false claims regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.
A circulating unfounded claim alleging that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has spread widely since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a legal action for defamation in the US against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's identity.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof disproving her claim opting to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would risk all her credibility on her belief that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron first met 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.
