A group of ten found guilty of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for engaging in the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of spreading false claims regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to making malicious remarks about the pair's significant age difference.
The court handed down suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.
A longstanding unfounded claim suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has spread widely since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France comes as the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the first lady's identity.
Their lawsuit 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 declared that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his high school.
The couple entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
