A group of ten sentenced of cyber-bullying directed at Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for perpetrating the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of spreading untruths regarding her gender and sexuality, in addition to making hurtful comments about the husband and wife's age disparity of 24 years.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has yet to be released.
A longstanding false narrative 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 Monday's court decision in France coincides with the Macrons engaging in a legal action for defamation in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's biological sex.
Their lawsuit alleges that Owens disregarded any factual proof disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she taught at his lycée.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was 54.
