Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying directed at Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced allegations of spreading false claims regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.
A persistent false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons pursuing a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's biological sex.
Their complaint contends that Owens ignored any factual proof disproving her claim opting to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she taught at his high school.
The two married in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
