A group of ten sentenced of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has convicted ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of spreading untruths regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to posting hurtful comments about the husband and wife's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of up to eight months to the convicted individuals. The full ruling has yet to be released.
A longstanding conspiracy theory claiming that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's gender.
Their complaint alleges that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her show and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her now-husband when she taught at his lycée.
The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
