Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying directed at Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced allegations of circulating fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court issued conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the defendants. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A persistent unfounded claim suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has existed since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's identity.
Their complaint contends that Owens brushed aside all credible evidence that refuted her assertions choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these assertions on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would risk all her credibility on her belief that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her now-husband when she was a teacher at his secondary school.
The couple married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
