Ten found guilty of online harassment directed at Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has found guilty ten people for engaging in the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced accusations of spreading fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the pair's age disparity of 24 years.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has yet to be released.
A longstanding unfounded claim suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the United States against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's biological sex.
Their lawsuit alleges that Owens disregarded all credible evidence that refuted her assertions opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has often echoed these assertions on her digital program and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she was a teacher at his high school.
The two married in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was 54.
