Ten sentenced of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has found guilty ten people for perpetrating the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of disseminating fabrications regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to posting defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of up to eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has still to be made public.
A longstanding false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has been in circulation since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the United States against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the Brigitte Macron's biological sex.
Their complaint alleges that Owens ignored all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these assertions on her podcast and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her belief that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his high school.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
