Ten sentenced of digital abuse against Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has ruled against ten people for engaging in the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of disseminating false claims regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.
A persistent conspiracy theory claiming that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has existed since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France coincides with the Macrons engaging in a defamation lawsuit in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the Brigitte Macron's gender.
Their legal filing contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof that refuted her assertions choosing instead to give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these allegations on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her future husband when she taught at his secondary school.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
